Hello orphans.

every week I do an interview about something relevant with an interesting guest, but I also do bonus episodes

exclusively for Patreon subscribers.

This week, several patrons of the show ask me to release this episode on the main fee where you're hearing it now

so that they can share my peculiar brand of nonpartisan common sense with their friends.

So here you go. If you like what you hear, think about adding to Patreon.com

slash Andrew Heaton, where for the price of a cup of coffee a week,

you can get additional bonus content just like this.

Thanks.

If you watch a situation that sometimes happens between Kirk and Spock and McCoy, where there is a difficult decision which must be

made, which lives will be lost.

Something like, let's say there's a shuttle and for some reason if that shuttle gets

down to the planet's surface, everybody in the enterprise is going to die.

So Kirk needs to blow up that shuttle.

There's 10 people on the shuttle.

There's 300 people on the enterprise.

And Spock says, Captain, the needs of the many

outweigh the needs of the few.

Mathematically, the ethics of this are not in doubt,

in order to preserve the lives of the greater amount of people on the enterprise,

you must fire a photon torpedo at that shuttle and kill the ten people.

And then Bones, he steps in and goes,

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