Your Turn To Play God - a hypothetical situation

[Sir O]

When I wrote this up, I was basically asking a question that's been debated over since the beginning of civilization: Which is of greater importance, the rights of the individual or the betterment of society as a whole. In this situation, I think option A represents the sacrifice of indvual liberty for the good of the group, while option B holds the individual in highest regard. I tried to make it obvious that this hypothetical world would be a better place with these first four men than without them, while the fifth man is much more of a burden on society than he could ever be a benefit.

So I was thinking about this a bit, and decided to look at it from a different angle. Same 5 people - four prime movers, one degenerate. No organ transplants this time around. We now find our four pillars of society all hospitalized and in critical condition. They've all been badly burned in a hotel fire, and all are in desperate need of skin grafts. As in the first scenario, the only potential skin donor is the degenerate. No black market, no artificial skin. To save the lives of the four men, the fifth must die.

The catch: the fire that put them in this condition was accidentally started by person E. What do you do?

I think this one's a bit tougher. My answer for the first scenario is very easy, this one though, I'm a bit less sure...