The big thinkers at Aperture analyze the ethical dilemmas behind the classic trolley problem. Message to Ken Burns: What Lincoln said about our founders on slavery ...

Should the driver of a crashing car be allowed to swerve into your lane and kill you, if she calculates that doing so would save her life? What if she'd die, too, but would save the lives of a ...

Sylvia Terbeck presents two versions of the trolley problem: one in which you divert a trolley that will kill five people so it only kills one other person, and another in which you push someone into ...