What does a question like the Trolley Problem teach us? How does it makes us look at larger ideas like Ethics and Law and even Neuroscience (brain stuff)?:Examine the ideas here, tell us what you’ve learned and what you think others can learn from confronting this vexing question.

You know the Trolley Problem, and you know it can’t be solved without someone dying…and that seems pretty pointless, doesn’t it?

Yet, fifty years in, we’re still trying to figure it out, knowing we can’t. Yet, you’re going to write a paper about it.

Here’s the question you have to wrestle with:

What does a question like the Trolley Problem teach us? How does it makes us look at larger ideas like Ethics and Law and even Neuroscience (brain stuff)? The ‘unwinnable scenario’ is out there, how do we use it? Examine the ideas here, tell us what you’ve learned and what you think others can learn from confronting this vexing question.

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