It’s a lesson embedded within Star Trek’s Prime Directive — but as the Trolley Problem illustrated, sometimes inaction can be morally problematic. In this thought experiment, we are asked to ...

Or do you do nothing? This haunting choice is a variation of the “trolley problem,” an iconic philosophical thought experiment. (If you’ve never heard of it before, try this.) Puzzling ...

The real question is what we value in creative work. 3. The Synthetic Samaritan (Challenging the Trolley Problem) The thought ...

A variation of Foot’s trolley case runs as follows ... In 1987 an American, Judith Jarvis Thomson (whom we’ve met in this column before – see Thought Experiment 2: The Unconscious Violinist) entered ...

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 ...

to actually live out the “trolley problem” thought experiment that forces you to choose between killing five people or just one person. On Tuesday, “Good Place” creator Mike Schur ...

That’s the most famous version of the trolley problem, a philosophical thought experiment popularized in the 1970s. There are other variants; the next most famous asks if you’d push a fat man ...

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 ...

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