What would Mill tell the rescuer to do, in Rescue I and Rescue II, according to his theory of utilitarianism?
“Let us consider […] a pair of cases which I shall call Rescue I and Rescue II. In the first Rescue story we are hurrying in our jeep to save some people – let there be five of them – who are imminently threatened by the ocean tide. We have not a moment to spare, […]