All 4 of your bullet points are manifestations of evil.
I agree.
Even if they truly believed that 3 or 4 were the right course, to unilaterally usurp the decision from people is arrogant and not the way we should do things.
And under all 4 people die who didn't have to die.
It's the trolly problem. Do you change tracks and kill the 1 person to avoid kiling the 10 people on the existing track?
Only this is more like, do you change tracks and kill an unknown number of people to avoid killing an unknown number of people? And why did you ignore track 3 that might have missed them all?