On Responsibility and Death: Can We See Reality for What It Is or Will It Break Us (opens in new tab)

“I killed your son.”I vaguely remember from my childhood a Star Trek episode where the captain had to make terrible choices: Something was about to explode, the crew only had seconds to evacuate, and then she had to give the order to seal off the whole section, trapping and killing everyone who didn’t get out in time, or else the whole ship would explode. She was probably friends with those crew members, wrote their obituaries, and would’ve contacted their families if they hadn’t been 70,000 ...