It was like that famous problem taught to college freshmen in ethics classes across the country. You, college freshman, are driving a train. Ahead on the tracks you spot five people. Do nothing and the train will run them over and kill them. But you have an option! You can flip a switch and send the train onto a siding, on which, unfortunately, there stands a man named Carl. Do nothing and you kill five people; flip the switch and you kill Carl. Most college freshmen elect to kill Carl and then, wham, the professor hits them with the follow-up. Carl has five healthy organs that can be
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