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Unless you’ve been living under Sisyphus’s boulder for the past 59 years, odds are you’ve at some point heard of the Trolley Problem.
Maybe you took a Psychology class in college. Maybe you’ve just been on the internet at some point. Or maybe, you’ve been the one standing at a switch, sweating out a real-life decision about letting five people die, or taking action to save those five people by condemning one person to being crushed under the weight of Thomas the Tank Engine.
Or perhaps this is the first you’ve ever heard about it. If so, please enjoy the variations on the thought experiments that psychology experts and professionals all agree are, to quote, “absolutely unhinged.”