Riane Konc

In the June 22 edition of the New Yorker, Riane Konc has a piece called "Presidential Trolley Problems. These are word problems for the President to solve. Below is one example. 

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The Contingency Plan

There is a runaway trolley speeding down
the tracks toward five people. But there is a
lever you can pull and change the trolley's
path so that it hits only one.

Whom should you put in charge of pulling 
the lever? I mean, it's easy: the guy who doesn't 
believe in trolleys, right?