Title Trolley Problem (thought experiment) What is it, in summary?: see Wikipedia for the long version, but the usual formulation is something like "a runaway tram is on course to kill five people down the track, but a bystander can pull a lever to divert it to a different track where it will kill one person. Should they pull it?" What do you love about it?: this came up in a Worldcon panel on philosophy and SF, and one of the panellists suggested fiction from the point of view of one of the participants in the trolley problem (sketched widely, not just the version above). I think that's a really cool idea, so here it is in Yuletide :)
Trolley Problem (thought experiment)
What is it, in summary?: see Wikipedia for the long version, but the usual formulation is something like "a runaway tram is on course to kill five people down the track, but a bystander can pull a lever to divert it to a different track where it will kill one person. Should they pull it?"
What do you love about it?: this came up in a Worldcon panel on philosophy and SF, and one of the panellists suggested fiction from the point of view of one of the participants in the trolley problem (sketched widely, not just the version above). I think that's a really cool idea, so here it is in Yuletide :)