A runaway trolley is heading toward five people, and you alone can decide what happens next. This entry in the Socratic series explores the famous Trolley Problem and the uncomfortable questions it raises about morality, responsibility, law, and whether human life can ever be reduced to arithmetic.

Stranded at sea with no food or water, two sailors killed and ate a cabin boy to survive. In this #Casefiles entry, Mide Alabi examines R v Dudley & Stephens (1884), the infamous English case that tested the limits of morality, survival, and the defense of necessity in criminal law.