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Comment author: username2 26 December 2015 11:02:30AM *  0 points [-]

If reports are correct, this is sort of an example of a transplant version of the Trolley problem in the wild: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/middle-east/Islamic-State-sanctioned-organ-harvesting-in-document-taken-in-US-raid/articleshow/50326036.cms

Comment author: Jiro 26 December 2015 05:46:44PM 3 points [-]

Not really.. It's not a trolley problem to divert the trolley into a group of ants, and ISIS thinks of non-Muslims like ants.

Comment author: ChristianKl 26 December 2015 08:49:18PM 2 points [-]

Additionally it wants to scare it's enemies by being brutal.

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