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Harvard psychologist Joshua Greene does brain scans of people as they ponder the so-called trolley problem. Suppose a trolley is rolling down the track toward five people who will die unless you pull a lever that diverts it onto another track--where, unfortunately, lies one person who will die...
But suppose the only way to save the five people is to push someone else onto the track--a bystander whose body will bring the trolley to a halt before it hits the others. It's still a one-for-five swap, and you still initiate the action that dooms...
“It took about one look at the list to make it clear that the only real candidate was A. Lawrence Lowell,” Greene wrote. “There was no subsequent urging of the merits of any other candidate as against Mr. Lowell.?...
“No one took the suggestion seriously enough to put it even in this miscellaneous list,” Greene wrote about Roosevelt.
Eliot, Greene, and the five other Corporation fellows were charged with choosing a successor. And even though Lowell was the acknowledged frontrunner, Eliot did not support his candidacy.