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You asked for plausible hypotheticals:
1. Poor and hungry/I steal money to buy food for myself and loved ones.
2. A man is beating a loved one/I hit him with a two by four.
3. An accident is happening to my right on the highway/I veer into the car next to me to avoid it, saving my life while risking that of another.
I've seen stuff like this happen, and even been party to one or two events. They are plausible hypotheticals--immediate action, immediate reaction in real world scenarios THAT HAVE ACTUALLY BEEN EMPIRICALLY OBSERVED. Here would be your version:
1. Poor and hungry/I torture someone based on the assumption that torturing will bring me food.
I'm no philosophy major, but that seems to be the basics of what's going on in this discussion.
