K/lacc post. I struggled with how to make a Cyrillic "L". I think that, given the prevalence of wireless on this campus, I should try this at least once. Maybe as a follow up to my posts from LHS and Nick's Closet.

"Which" is used attributively, "that" is used referentially. The former is for matters which have already been referred to, the second is to refer.

"A number of students has applied to the off campus program"

Fat Man on Bridge:
Standing on bridge above oncoming trolley. Trolley will run over 5 people if it is not impeded. May you push the fat man such that he falls on the tracks and impedes the trolley? What if the fat man is asleep and about to fall on the track? Must you wake him? Is it permissible to let him fall? To push him?

The above is a segment of a lecture from Philosophy 37 (all credit where credit is due)

This reminds me of a dialog c 2003ish:

Byles: I am a vegetarian.

Me: Why are you a vegetarian?

Byles: Because I think it wrong to bring harm to animals.

Me: So you have no prescription against eating meat itself, rather
simply against harming animals?

Byles: Correct.

Me: So if someone cloned the cell structure to a shoulder steak without harming a cow, you'd eat it?

Byles: Yes.

Me: What if a cow were killed, but not through human agency, as in, if it were struck by lightning? Would you be permitted to sample its meaty flanks?

Byles: Why, I suppose so.

Me: What if I used a weather control device to invoke a lightning storm which incidentally took the life of a cow.

Byles: Um...

Henry: What if you shot a cow with a lightning gun?

Byles: Shut up.

Of course, we were just messing with him at this point.

"What if a barking dog is traversing the bridge right as the rolling fat man is about to fall to his death, stopping the trolley, and saving the lives of the five children on the tracks below: ?"
-Are we permitted in shooing off the dog so the fat man will fall?
-MUST we shoo off the dog and ensure the fat man's demise?
-On what account must we or may we allow the dog to walk across the bridge and wake the fat man?

In Vermont, you can be fined for not picking up a drowning baby out of a bucket of water into which it has waddled. In New Hampshire, your negligence is not punishable. On Fredrickville, it is encouraged.

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