the Question:

You are a very important person and owner of a hot air balloon:
In your balloon you carries four passengers to a world conference to discuss some world topics. An elite scientist, an elite economist, an elite medical doctor and an elite agriculturist. All of them have done extensive contribution to the world that have helped in cleaner air and energy sourcing, saved lives from poverty and illness, produced jobs and crops to economy and brought better equilibrium as a whole to the world. Unfortunately at the peak of the flying altitude, your hot air balloon has a leak and it is leaking fast, after considering all the available options, the only method to save most out of this worst incident is to sacrifice one person. You are not in the balloon but since you are the VIP, you can pick which person to sacrifice or all four passengers die. Now how would you determine your decision?

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What is the problem? The balloon is leaking hot air fast.
What is the impact? The weight of the people the balloon is carrying is going to drag the whole balloon down and crash.
What is the solution? Discard weight from the basket which the balloon is carrying.

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and the Answer:
Regardless, discard the person with the heaviest weight.