The trolley problem demonstrates just how dire the coronavirus pandemic is becoming — with a touch of surrealist humor, of course. In the moral paradox, a trolley's brakes stop working, and as it ...

Imagine that you’re a rude teen hanging near some trolley tracks, kicking around rocks, when you look up and notice that five people are tied to the tracks. A trolley suddenly appears, careening ...

Leave aside whether it's offensive to reduce the value of human suffering to a bowl of candy. The now-notorious Trump campaign Skittles meme is actually a reworking of the most famous thought ...

The moral dilemma that broke free of academic discourse and became a runaway meme. By David Edmonds Philippa Foot set the trains, or trolleys, in motion. In 1967, Foot, a well-to-do Englishwoman, the ...