How would a utilitarian respond to this situation

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While on a Caribbean cruise with your child, your ship is taken over by pirates. They line all of the passengers up, then hand you a gun and tell you that either:

You can shoot and kill your own child, at which point the pirates will leave all the rest of you unharmed
You can refuse to shoot your child, and the pirates will kill everyone else on the ship except the two of you.

How would a utilitarian respond to this situation? Why?

How would a deontologist respond to this situation? Why?

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