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Feel like you're engaging with the material, like with the trolley problem. That was just tricky, that's all. Why don't you just tell me the right answer? Well, that's what's so great about the trolley problem is that there is no right answer. Ah, this is why everyone hates moral philosophy professors. Come on, your side here, dude. But he is not wrong. Okay, Michael, trust me when it comes to human ethics, I just know more than you. I've been studying it my whole life. It's just that it's so theoretical, you know. I mean, you know, maybe there's a more concrete approach here. Let's try this.
Oh God, Michael, what did you do? I made the trolley problem real so we can see how the ethics would actually play out. There are five workers on this track and one over there. Here are the levers to switch the tracks. Then choice, the biggies. I mean, technically speaking, it's tricky. I mean, on the one hand, yours right or wrong, dude. Okay, so what do we learn? Chiti, talk it out, buddy. What do we think? He thinks he just killed a bunch of people with a trolley. It's just a simulation. I would never make you kill real people.
Oh well, that's reassuring. Because some of the parts of the fake people… Michael, can we just go back to the classroom? We never left here. I'll show you. Huh, look, see, buddy? None of this was real. Well, they're fake people, but their pain is real. Does that make sense? There have to be stakes. There's just another thought experiment. This is awful. You specifically asked me if there is a way I could connect with the material, or I'm trying. You guys, sorry. You're right. I want to help you understand this. Thank you, Jenny. So let's try again. Scenario, okay? I can do this. I am choosing to switch tracks so that way I only kill one person. Oh, forgot to tell you, this is the scenario where you actually know one of the people, a friend, Henry there. Oh no, it's Troy. I can't change. My boots are stuck in the trash again. Just a simulation, and almost impossibly lifelike simulation with someone's foot really fly off their body like that. That was kind of cool. Technically speaking, you…