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Mayor Tom pays Ruth a visit with what sounds like a simple hypothetical. As the conversation unfolds, it's clear this isn't just an ordinary thought experiment. Stream Widow's Bay now on Apple TV+.

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00:00Now, there's a lever that you can pull that'll divert it to a different track where it will only hit
00:04one person.
00:08Would you, would you pull the lever?
00:12Oh, I get it. And then all those people would be saved.
00:15Yes. Yes, exactly.
00:17Well, I wouldn't pull the lever.
00:19But, but you'd have to.
00:21So I don't have a choice, then. What's the question?
00:23No, I mean, yes, you have a choice.
00:25Yes. Um, but, but not a real one, because if you don't pull that lever, all those people will die.
00:32Well, I wouldn't pull it.
00:33How could you not pull it?
00:38The runaway trolley is life.
00:41The lever is me.
00:43You can't control the bad things that happen in life, Tom.
00:49Um, but if I pull that lever, it's a choice, and I'm choosing to kill that person.
00:55I could never do that.
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