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Ehud Neor's avatar

Looking forward to it. Are we not good at defining our problems? Actually, you can bring it up to date: it’s not a trolley, but a truck driven by a mad jihadist towards a Christmas fair in Germany. The decision to be made at the border: If the Germans grant him asylum, he will mow down a few dozen Christians somewhere down the line. If they refuse to grant asylum, they will pass him off to, say, Belgium, and he can do his jihadi thing there.

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Robert F. Graboyes's avatar

That's a fine and even more complex use of the Trolley Problem. I doubt that I'll get that elaborate. In truth, the Trolley Problem can have an infinite number of tracks, so one has to truncate them somewhere.

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Ehud Neor's avatar

Robert, I just cannot stop thinking about those we will leave behind. It's unbearable.

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