Most people would agree that in a hypothetical world where you had to kill one person from your own country (a stranger to you) versus one person from some other country (also a stranger) you would kill the foreigner.

But what if the question were, for example, a choice of killing one citizen from your own country versus two from another country? How about ten from another country, or a hundred? Where’s your balance point?

Assume none of the people “have it coming.” In this hypothetical situation, we’re not at war, and there is no greater good in the long run. It’s a simple choice of us or them. How many from another country would you kill to save one of your own?