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Driverless Dilemma

2023-09-15 00:00:00 +0000 UTC ·41m 20s ·by WNYC Studios
Driverless Dilemma
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About this episode

Most of us would sacrifice one person to save five. It’s a pretty straightforward bit of moral math. But if we have to actually kill that person ourselves, the math gets fuzzy. That’s the lesson of the classic Trolley Problem, a moral puzzle that fried our brains in an episode we did almost 20 years