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RE: Hypothetical Moral Judgments vs. Real-Life Moral Actions
My first thought was what you came to. Refuse to shock any of them. And in the case of a real life decision, if a third party is demanding you choose the murder of one or multiples, one could always choose to hand that fate to the one issuing the ultimatum if they are stupid enough to be close to you while giving it.
Yes, false dichotomies can pose interesting questions, but there are other options usually. But in the end, if you can't do much more, you don't have to be responsible to harm someone just because another person is making threatening to harm more than 1 person. It's like "kill this baby or I kill you"... there is always a choice. Don't do the immoral thing of murdering a baby, or choose your survival and murder a baby...