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The ‘Trolley, Problem, Inc.’ Podcast is a six-part audio series featuring leading figures from the gaming and entertainment industries who are asked four awful philosophical questions and asked to pick the “best” answer from two dreadful choices. Find out who would kill one person to save five others, who would stop an old man from receiving a heart transplant and whether or not the little girl playing in the sandpit survives in this entertaining, challenging series of discussions. Hosted by Simon Byron and game developer Samuel Read-Graves. Inspiration taken from the PC game ‘...

The trolley problem is a simple scenario with 2 bad choices to be chosen from. Yet it describes who we are, as a society, as a country, as a species. Listen to as Surya T describes the many dimensions of the trolley problem and how we define ourselves as a society