What happened to your last post, did it fall victim to political correctness? I no longer wonder about the superficiality of the way we see and read. With increasing technology, attention spans seem to narrow.

Your example in this text is the classic, I think the question alone is a grip on the trick box. It reminds me a little of Startrek and the Vulcan logic that is often used there. The welfare of the many is above the welfare of the individual, whereas you have to give the series credit for being thought-provoking and having excellent dialogues in many parts.

This logic can also be seen in the vaccination debate. Long before Corona, people didn't mind that a few died as a result of or during the series of experiments with drugs and vaccines as long as it wasn't their own relatives. So vaccination damages are hardly taken seriously or persecuted, one behaves quite mercilessly to this question and similar to now the critics were called selfish egoists.

But basically these are abstract questions, because for most people they never really become so concrete as to make the result of their actions really visible. I compare this to the death penalty, which is often advocated. But perhaps this view can only be taken because it is not you yourself who kills a person, but far away in the prisons the executors do so. It is easy to agree with something that has so little to do with your own life. I can understand it, but it always alienates me anew, because I find it easy to put myself in both perspectives: the one who has to die and the one who has to kill. Both are a terrible idea.