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Second, Solas killing the mages has nothing to do with that train scenario. There was no need to kill, however one defines "need", it was pure bloodlust. There would have been a thousand ways to make them pay. There were no negative consequences to letting them live, no people to be saved, no orphans to be rescued. And the "balance of order and chaos" was never threatened by those few ignorant mages.
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Forth, just because I am halfway through to hell already anyway :-), about the train: who is the one person and who are the 5? Is the one person the one who will change history, the one with very important knowledge, the one Mother Teresa? And the 5 are a group of notoric drunks who like to beat up gays? Are the 5 a group of human rights activists while the one is the leader of a KKK group? What I am trying to say is that this question is meant to cheaply provoke thought, but it does not really give much away in terms of testing your character. Would I let 5 or 10 or 15 people die for a single person? "It depends." Yes, if the one seems "worth more". If I know the one and think very highly of him/her and I do not know the others, would I save the one? Probably. Because I can assess what good s/he can do while the others could be a bunch of bad apples.
Now, what am I? Good or bad? I cannot tell.
Yes, the train scenario is very different from what Solas did, I agree. In one scenario somebody will die for sure, in the other nobody has to die.
I hope that if I ever am in such a situation I will choose to save as many innocent lives as I can. It's objectively the best choice if those people are regular people. I probably would save the person I love unfortunately, but it's not right to me to put greater value on a friend than a stranger. So I would feel guilty for the rest of my life. The person I saved too probably.
Logically, I would even have to save an orangutan instead of a thousand people because they are going extinct. But I wouldn't do that either. So I'd make a really bad leader. I do not want to make hard choices. I feel like crying when I step on a snail. As the inquisitor I'd be rocking in a corner somewhere after five minutes or pass out after the first drop of spilled blood. (I get dizzy when I cut my finger!)
Things get really muddy when we ask if those are "good" people on the tracks... I would not regret letting a group of rapists die for my friend. But technically, a life is a life. When it comes to actual premeditated murder, I am foolishly dead set against it. No matter how awful a person we're talking about. I find the death penalty barbaric. I felt bad for Saddam when they hanged him in that moment. For real. He deserved it but that doesn't make it right in my head. Socially accepted murder makes my skin crawl. But I know I have... issues when it comes to death in general.
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I guess that's a good thing though! All the Solas love! 
