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Get to grips with Schrödinger’s cat, utilitarianism and more.

See, you have a choice to make: you can let events play out — and the train will kill all five people on the track — or you can pull the lever next to you and redirect the train down the alternate path, where only one person will die. Choo choo motherfucker, here comes the ethics train. Welcome to the trolley dilemma, first proposed by moral philosopher Phillipa Foot in the 1960s, every undergraduate philosophy student’s worst nightmare, not to mention a meme on the internet since time im...