In the trolley problem, you are asked whether you would kill one person to save five. Something odd happens when the problem ...

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We all know people who do not want to vote for former President Donald Trump this November because they fear what his second term might bring, but they also refuse to vote for a Democrat, including ...

Oh, shoot. The trolley problem is happening to me. The probability of dying in a plane crash is about one in thirteen million. The probability of being attacked by a shark is one in four million.

Superhero stories are well known for their high stakes, which in the best cases have interesting moral dimensions as well. Such is the case when heroes confront a tragic dilemma, one from which they ...

There was a mention of the classic trolley problem in your look at a new book on morality. This left me wondering whether – rather than choose to push an innocent bystander into the path of the ...

The big thinkers at Aperture analyze the philosophical problem known as the trolley problem.

This question posed itself to me after an incident my roommate and I call the ‘modern trolley problem.’ On the way to the Publix on 13th Street and University Avenue, walking north, I found myself ...

Superhero stories are well known for their high stakes, which in the best cases have interesting moral dimensions as well. Such is the case when heroes confront a tragic dilemma, one from which they ...