John Taurek argued that when deciding what to do in such a situation, you should flip a coin, thereby giving each of A, B and C a 50 percent chance of survival (Taurek 1977: 303).
EGC is a principle that is at least partly about how one should decide what to do in the end: flip a coin. It is also a principle about what to do in the end: whatever the coin says to do.
If Batman were to flip a coin to decide whether to save the larger or the smaller group, he would diminish each person's chance of survival to one-half.
If Batman is to follow EGC, at 1:00 he must flip a coin to decide which box to check, since that gives each hostage an equal greatest chance of survival.
If Lawlor is right, then in a version of the Batman case in which there are 2,000,001 people involved, to be divided into a group of 1,000,000 and a group of 1,000,001, Batman should, at noon, choose to save the larger group, and at 1:00, flip a coin. And this cannot be right.
Saving people and flipping coins
We only need one torsion bar and we'd rather not
flip a coin. Can you help us out?
Don't leave choice to chance
Just
flip a coin!A But in times of difficulties, between life and death - do we just have to
flip a coin and choose between 'heads' or 'tails'?
Selling valubale coins for a very worth cause
Melton said because the jury wanted to avoid a mistrial they decided to
flip a coin.
JURY'S VERDICT IS TOSS OF COIN
Givens' lawyer, Mr Mark Chandler, said it was "scary" to think that 12 people would decide to
flip a coin to reach a verdict, especially in a murder case.
WORLD DIGEST
To get the next term,
flip a coin to decide whether to add the last two terms or subtract the last term from the previous term.
Fibonacci at Random
Flip a coin? Canadians would see American spelling as capitulation.
Separated by a common tongue?
``They have got thousands of students with straight As and they could
flip a coin, but no-one would like that, so they do interviews.
`Like flipping a coin' Supremo blasts student selection methods