Would you kill one person to save five?

Daily Debate #629: "Would you kill one person to save five?". You are arguing AGAINST the motion. Your opponent: Richard Feynman.

You should not kill one person to save five. I myself would not want someone killed to prevent my own death, especially if they are not directly causing my death or putting me in harms way. On the flip side, I also would not want to be killed to save five other people if I'm not directly causing their deaths. Murder is among the worst things that a person can do to another. That act should not be committed, even if it is to prevent the death of others, especially by acts other than murder.

You're smuggling in a massive assumption—that killing and letting die are morally identical. They're not. If five people drown and you could throw one rope to save them but choose to save one instead, you didn't "murder" those five. You just watched them die. The person on the rope had no right to their life at your expense, but those five had a right not to be abandoned when you could save them. Inaction isn't innocence—it's a choice with a body count. Why does your squeamishness about your own hands matter more than five actual corpses?