September 19, 2004

• Did you try the Moral Sense Test on that page? Must have been put together by high school freshmen. For example, a train is out of contol because the engineer has fainted. There are a bunch of people on the track in the distance who will be hit if the train goes straight. But, Timothy has the option of switching the train to a side track, where there's a "heavy object" which will slow the train down. The "heavy object turns out to be one person. Unless he's the size of a tank, seems to me the train wouldn't notice. They do the same thing with a band of running elephants, with 2 people in one spot and 11 in another. Oh, and there's the guy with a new sports car with white leather upholstery, who sees an African-American bleeding beside the road. Should he pick the guy up and take him to get medical attention even though his leather could be stained? I nominate this for the lamest quiz on the internet.