AIs, Honesty, Murder and Trolleys

[vicky_molokh]

Originally Posted by Flyndaran

That conflict would "break" the character regardless of the choice it made. Play that up heavily. Morally justified or not, that character killed innocent people, and only a cold blooded sociopath could handle that easily.

This isn't an issue of breaking. The original instance of character responsible for the act (a) is dead and (b) failed to complete the act anyway.
The question is that since Honesty not merely makes difficult, but outright prohibits murder (unlike lesser crimes and many other forms of killing), whether Honesty was hacked away. And the answer to that depends on whether an act of mass killing is classified as murder when it prevents even more deaths under all jurisdictions. (The AI was from EU/France.)