There is a runaway trolley speeding down the tracks toward five people. You can pull a lever and change the trolley’s path so that it hits only one person, but you aren’t aware of this option because ...

When it comes to autonomous cars, get used to hearing about ‘the trolley problem.’ A thought experiment in ethics, the basis of the problem is as follows: A runaway train is about to mow down five ...

There was a mention of the classic trolley problem in your look at a new book on morality. This left me wondering whether – rather than choose to push an innocent bystander into the path of the ...