And I’m being serious. I feel like there might be an argument there, I just don’t understand it. Can someone please “steelman” that argument for me?

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    It’s a stupid question. But that’s the reality. So genocide or worse genocide? If you say neither, it’s probably going to be worse genocide.

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      Some people really don’t grasp the concept of the trolley problem.

      A train is headed towards 5 people, you can pull a lever and switch tracks to kill 1 person. What do you do?

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        People who think the trolley problem has a clear cut solution that we have to “get” are on the starting edge of the Dunning-Kruger curve.