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>> the trolley problem. >> we're in a trolley car with chidi with his hands on the control trying to figure out who to kill and who not. it pointed out we're faced with these horrible choices all the time, and we should have some empathy, you know, because they're hard. >> make a decision! >> it's tricky. i mean on the one hand, if you ascribe to a utilitarian -- >> it was a very funny scene. >> okay. so what did we learn? >> there's something escapist about letting all these things we're dealing with here play out in this fantasy world. >> that's the whole idea behind tv. i you want to escape...

Thanks to the recent television series “The Good Place,” the idea of the "trolley problem" has become commonplace.

Print Near the end of Robert Zemeckis’ “Contact,” Jodie Foster — her enormous eyes full of the things of the universe — gasps out the famous line: “They should have sent a poet.” But a facility with iambic pentameter is not what’s needed when the quandaries you face, sealed in a cigar tube half a million miles up in the sky, are more ethical than metaphysical: In Joe Penna’s restrained and ruthlessly rational sci-fi “Stowaway,” they should have sent a moral philosopher. Of course, even Immanuel Kant would consume oxygen — or he would have in his day — and so he too w...

A new batch of awesome short speculative fiction coming your way! March delivered a ton of narratively innovative short stories, several of which earned a spot on this list. I also have for you tales of murder and retribution, not-so-distant futures, and the mundane made hilarious.   “When the fires calmed and the bright red embers turned to ash, when the city grieved and grieved until it couldn’t grieve anymore, Dusa Dayan rose from the back pew of Beale Street First African Baptist Church and let the sounds of Doctor Watts’ hymns usher her out the red door.” After white men burn do...

Getty Images Finding the best ways to do good. A group of daring volunteers will soon become infected with Covid-19 — on purpose. They’re young. They’re healthy. And they want scientists to give them a candidate vaccine and then deliberately expose them to the coronavirus, so we can all find out faster whether the vaccine is effective. This is called a human challenge trial, and it’s set to kick off in the UK within a month, now that an ethics board has given it the necessary approval. Scientists have run such trials in the past for influenza, malaria, typhoid, dengue, and chol...