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The trolley trick: Marginalizing morality in elite education

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The trolley trick: Marginalizing morality in elite education
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from Asad Zaman  Could you persuade an ordinary decent person that murder might sometimes be morally admirable? Deep moral convictions are not easily shaken. A person may be confused, tempted, frightened, or pressured into wrongdoing, but to calmly reconsider the moral status of murder itself — that seems almost impossible. Yet in one of Harvard’s […]

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