Jerry Cole

“Things aren’t that simple,” he continued. “We can’t see the future. So two lives are depending on you, and you can only save one and the one you save dies anyway in the hospital the next night. But maybe if you’d saved the other person instead it would have been the same. You can’t know. And even if you could see the future and know perfectly what outcome your choices would have, there’s no such thing as a perfect choice. Someone’s going to get hurt. Something is going to end up less than ideal no matter what you choose. Maybe if you save one guy, he dies in a car accident a month later. Maybe the other guy lives to be a hundred. Is the first guy’s month of life less valuable? What if he spent it doing charity work in Africa? Is he more valuable then? What if the second guy has a big family? What if they both have families? Does having four kids make someone more important than if they only had one? It’s impossible to make the right choice because there is no right choice, ever. There’s no wrong choices either. You just do the best you can with what’s in front of you. You try to cause the least pain you can and you understand that the rest is out of your control. You know this.”
― Jerry Cole, On Thin Ice