Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-27398195-20160610102345/@comment-25876622-20160616214944

One more thing to add: Faces are never nameless. One can disconnect people from their names, experiences, emotions, dreams, achievements with many different ways, such as referring to them in groups, calling them collateral damage, using statistics, calling the situation their "job" etc. - this makes difficult decisions easier and terrible events less painful. (The trolley and trainwreck problems also use this.)

HAWAIIANpikachu wrote: Do you turn to hit the one worker, or not and hit the five hikers. Do you turn to hit Frank (has three kids, brings his neighbors cookies every Sunday, engineer for the local train company), or not and hit the five hikers James (wife is first time pregnant, teaches Biology and Physics to kids), Katie (mother of two kids, often takes in exchange students from overseas), Dennis (visits grandparents in foster home every week, relied on by his coworkers), Stella (suffering from depression, does a lot of charity work) and Bert (has his wedding next month, sells used cars, collects puzzle games as a hobby)?