The curious minds at Aperture revisit the moral complexities of the trolley problem and why it remains unresolved.

But 2016 was a year of high-stakes decision-making—from primary elections and Brexit to Hillary Clinton’s loss to Donald Trump—and the trolley problem, which boils decisions down to one ...

Recently, the “trolley problem,” a decades-old thought experiment in moral philosophy, has been enjoying a second career of sorts, appearing in nightmare visions of a future in which cars make ...

The trolley problem is a staple of discussions about ethics. The basic version is very simple: A trolley is barreling down a track toward a group of five people who remain blissfully unaware of ...

What do you do? ADVERTISEMENT This, of course, is the Trolley Problem, a classic thought experiment and popular internet meme that poses an ethical dilemma: Would you sacrifice one life to save ...

The trolley problem is a story philosophers often use to get people thinking about ethics and their obligations to others. Traditionally, the problem has us imagine we are an onlooker standing ...

There is an infamous moral dilemma that philosophers call “The Trolley Problem.” You are on a runaway trolley and have to choose to steer it toward a track with one worker on it or let it stay ...

A YouTuber has recreated the trolley problem, the moral philosophy conundrum in which you are asked whether it is morally justifiable to kill one person in order to save five. The original problem ...

The Trolley Problem. Basically, it’s a simplified set of moral situations where there is no right or correct answer. People, through their own experiences, upbringing and other factors will ...