7/16/20

Human's Tribune

Volume 3Issue 16Thursday, July 16, 2020

The Trolley Problem

By Antoinette Durand

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Picture this: you take a walk in the city where you're visiting and a run-away trolley passes you. You realize in that sickening moment that there is an alternate track that the trolley could take, and you're standing right next to the lever. The alternate track has one person on it. The question is whether or not to pull the lever. By doing so, you kill one person. If you don't five people will die. What will you do?

There's another version of the trolley problem. You are on a bridge and there's a run-away trolley on a track bellow you. Next to you on the bridge is a large man. If you pushed him to his death, the trolley would stop and the five passengers would be saved. Could you kill a man out right to save five others?

You should get the same answer for both variations: one dies, five lives, but there is a big difference. In the first problem, you are allowing someone to die because they happen to be on the track that will save other people's lives. The second is killing a man to save others. There is a big difference between letting someone to die and killing them. Comment below on what you'd do.

Don't "Wait for It" to see Hamilton

By Phillip Collins

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s broadway hit is beyond my expectations of "good", or even "great". The music is so catchy. The storyline is filled with complicated emotional scenes. The actors have a talent no one can achieve overnight. You could perhaps even call this “the perfect show.” For those of you who don’t know, in 2009, Lin-Manuel Miranda set out to complete a soundtrack titled “The Hamilton Mixtapes.” From there he hired several actors to portray roles in his very own broadway musical, Hamilton. At first, it sounded like a bizarre idea, but in the end it ended up winning 11 Tony awards and the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. All in all, this is one of the best musicals I’ve ever seen. If you haven’t seen Hamilton on Disney+ yet, I highly recommend watching it.

Classic Article:The Giver

By Antoinette Durand

The Giver is a powerful book that I recommend to everyone. It’s about twelve year old Jonas in a futuristic society where there are no choices, only rules. When a person turns twelve, they are assigned their job to contribute to society. Jonas is special, and given a strange job with strange new rules. Jonas learns new truths and has to decide where his loyalty lies.