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Emiya's situations usually seems to be more of kill a small number of people or all the people die. The option to save some over the other is not generally present since the situation usually will result in everyone dying if he does nothing.
Even in the cases were he could just save some of the people and not save the others, the others still die. Sometimes it is just logical conclusion that if he personally kills some of them himself, more will not be killed later.
And by logical I mean, Mages and/or the Church comes in afterwards and kills every witness regardless of what they did or saw. Under the "Save some and everyone else dies, or kill some and the others might live because there is no incident for the mages/Church to cleanup" type rules....logic is about the only sane thing left.
The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one. it might be cold logic, but it is the best he's got.
The more human approach, that the needs of the one, sometime outweigh the needs of the many...elude Emiya. Not because he doesn't want to save the few or the one...but because life has been such that everytime he might be able to do so, the few or the one are taken from him anyway. In this case, the few would be Iris and Illya. And Emiya did want to save them and avoid the War entirely. But the needs of the many won....until the Grail proved to be an evil trap (tricky Grail-kun). Then it was too late.
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