I will not contradict myself

Point of Clarification The scenarios presented are not meant to be answered cumulatively. That is, you don't answer #2 in light of your answer to #1. Each is to be answered with respect to how you are now. Additional clarifications: #2 - Your decision is made prior to the swap/torture/release. So you are making with your mind in your body. After you make the decision, he will then release the body-mind pair you decided to release, and torture the other. So you can decide to release what will be your body-other mind or other body-your mind. Which would you have released? #5 - The car is completely disassembled, even the engine, into its most basic constituent parts. Then it is reassembled using those same exact parts. Is it the same car? #7 - In line with the clarification above, this has nothing to do with the swapped minds scenario. Given that, I will take "I would not go through [with] the operation" as your answer unless you object. #9 - The question is in regards to actions where I don't have a choice, even a choice whether or not I want to engage in it. If I have no choice, am I still morally responsible? New Questions 1. Similar to #7, you wake up one morning surgically attached to another person. However, this was not as a result of any agreement on your part. You were kidnapped and forcibly attached to this person. Staying attached presents no harm to you and detaching also presents no harm to you. However, detaching would kill the other person? Do you go through with the separation? 2. Also similar to #7, however a complication to the attachment process now threatens both of your lives. If you stay attached, both of you will die. If you separate, the other person will die and you will live. Do you go through with the separation? 3. Similar to #10 however, the scientist puts the microchip in your brain before you even ever meet this coworker. Everything else plays as described: if you decide to kill your coworker, the scientist does nothing. If you decide not to kill your coworker, the scientist activates the microchip to force you to kill your coworker. You decide to kill your coworker without the influence of the microchip. Are you morally responsible? 4. Consider an event that no person is responsible for, like a tornado. Also consider that this tornado destroys a house and kills the family inside and that no one is responsible for that causal connection. That is, no one is responsible for the fact that the tornado destroyed the house and killed the people. Is it then logical to conclude that no one is responsible for the death of the family? 5. Can the logical principle in #4 be generalized? That is, can we say that for any event X for which no one is responsible; and a causal connection "X causes Y" for which no one is responsible; can we say, then, that no one is responsible for Y? 6. You decide that you really don't like your coworkers, and plan to kill another. At a very formal function, you decide to lure one of your coworkers under a large crystal chandelier. The chandelier hangs by several chains that loop through eye-bolts in the ceiling, then hang down and are anchored in various places in the wall. However, it was poorly designed. The chandelier is so heavy that if any of the anchors are removed, the chandelier will pull the remaining anchors out and fall, killing whoever may be underneath. You exploit this weakness and do just that: you lure your coworker under the chandelier, remove the anchor, and watch as it falls. Unbeknownst to you, however, was the fact that, at one of the other anchors, the wood was infested with termites and, at the exact same time that you pulled your anchor, the wood around the other anchor gave way. In short: had you not pulled your anchor, the other anchor would have fell out, causing the chandelier to fall at the exact same time, killing your coworker. Are you still morally responsible for this death? 7. Do you believe you have a soul? 8. If so, is that where your identity resides? That is, if you believe you have a soul, could your body and mind be destroyed while your identity still remains intact in your soul? 9. If not, do you believe your identity resides in your mind such that if your mind is kept alive while your body is destroyed, your identity will remain intact in your mind? 10. Is torture ever permissible?