One lives, one dies? This isn't npc's we're talking about here. Which one do you want to live? If the choice is 1, you face one set of grieving parents, but you don't know which. If the choice is 2, you either face 2 grieving parents, or 2 happy parents, but the choice still wasn't yours. That's the thing about the RNG. It's R.
This is an old, old, old question. The earlier permutation was about being an officer leading 100 soldiers through a dangerous place -- with one choice, 50 die and 50 live, or with the other choice, there's a 50% chance that all will live or all will die. The answer usually given is that as a leader, your responsibility is to make a decision either way and get the heck out of there.
As a leader, you're expected to lead, but you cannot take responsibility for being handed an unwinnable situation. In the meantime, while we discuss it, the babies get sicker and the vaccine will not be as effective. We are more than the simple computer that Kirk blew away with the "everything I say is a lie" statement. As humans, we need to recognize it is a divide by 0, and move on.
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