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For 30 seconds, I kill her. For an hour, we both die. I think my indecision point is around 15 minutes.
...thank you for your honest self-reporting, but I do feel obliged to point out that this does not make any sense.
I didn't think it through for any kind of logical consistency -- it's pure snap judgment. I think my instinct when presented with this kind of ethical dilemma is treat my own qalys (well, qalsecs) as far less valuable than those of another person. Or possibly I'm just paying an emotional surcharge for actually taking the action of ending another person's life. There was some sense of "having enough time to do something of import (e.g., call loved ones)" in there too.
But isn't this time relative to lifespan? What if your entire lifespan were only 30 minutes?