If you are familiar with the TV show The Good Place, you will remember the hilarious trolley problem scene. Poor Chidi!

The problem is ethical: a trolley’s brakes failed and it is hurtling down the tracks, about to kill five people. Is it okay to push someone in front of the trolley, killing them but preventing the deaths of five? (in the TV show, the trolley driver—you—are faced with the choice: head down one track and kill five strangers or choose another track and kill one person you know).

The Dalai Lama was once asked what he would do in the “runaway trolley” problem; he said he would throw himself in front of the trolley.

Determined, Robert Sapolsky

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