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The trolley problem: would you kill one person to save many others?

Posted on January 22, 2017October 14, 2017 by Mr. Lakhaney

“A decades-old thought experiment reveals our inconsistent moral intuitions. What would you do?”

https://www.theguardian.com/science/head-quarters/2016/dec/12/the-trolley-problem-would-you-kill-one-person-to-save-many-others

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