What’s the right thing to do? [Video, links]

Michael Sandel runs a course on Justice at Harvard. He’s now opening the course to the world, as a Massive Open Online Course. You can register for free, if you’d like to explore your moral limits & how you think about justice. You could, alternatively, watch the series of youtube videos, beginning with “The moral side of murder“, & follow the links for more, if you’re interested. Certain to test your sense of justice, & get you thinking.

 If you had to choose between (1) killing one person to save the lives of five others and (2) doing nothing, even though you knew that five people would die right before your eyes if you did nothing—what would you do? 

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