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Below is a moral exercise.

A crazed retard is at the helm of a school bus filled with small children. He has taken the children hostage and the children are told to stay in their seats because of "kudies", also he has insisted they avoid talking to each other. He now has announced that they must go without food and shuns them for suggesting they help get food. Meanwhile, the crazed retard is stopping at various criminal establishments and filling the bus with pedos and murderers in the name of "getting food" for the fake food shortage.

Parents of these children now argue about what to do. Some suggestions are that the crazed retard is actually a genius and is caring for the children properly. Since the bus driver was elected by someone else, other parents suggest they rally together and create a new political party so that in 3.5 years they can vote the crazed retard bus driver out. Other parents find this idea hateful and vie to ban people from talking about the problem.

The moral questions are these:

1) What other suggestions might one have in this situation?

2) Why do you come to these suggestions?

Good luck with this one. I'll be interested in your responses and will reply when I can.

Below is a moral exercise. A crazed retard is at the helm of a school bus filled with small children. He has taken the children hostage and the children are told to stay in their seats because of "kudies", also he has insisted they avoid talking to each other. He now has announced that they must go without food and shuns them for suggesting they help get food. Meanwhile, the crazed retard is stopping at various criminal establishments and filling the bus with pedos and murderers in the name of "getting food" for the fake food shortage. Parents of these children now argue about what to do. Some suggestions are that the crazed retard is actually a genius and is caring for the children properly. Since the bus driver was elected by someone else, other parents suggest they rally together and create a new political party so that in 3.5 years they can vote the crazed retard bus driver out. Other parents find this idea hateful and vie to ban people from talking about the problem. The moral questions are these: 1) What other suggestions might one have in this situation? 2) Why do you come to these suggestions? Good luck with this one. I'll be interested in your responses and will reply when I can.

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[–] • 1 pt

It's important to look past all the politics and opinions and focus the physicality of solving the problem - what actions that need to be taken rather than words spoken. Can you stop the bus with a spike strip? Or do you need to box him in with chase vehicles? What would be the logistics of acquiring and deploying chase vehicles and reliable drivers for them? Should your vehicles be painted a certain way to avoid attracting interfering attention from other road users? The bus requires gas to continue indefinitely, so maybe you could somehow block its access gas stations within range?

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

This is good. So if I can summarize, limit the gas to the bus and he'll run out of gas?

[–] • 1 pt

That's one strategy to pursue, with probably many substrategies to get there. But all strategies you can think of should be explored to maximize chance of success, or when resources are limited, to find the strategies with the best ratio of effectiveness over cost. Also consider strategies that provide a return on cost, for example, implementing a "tax" on the gas station owner, so he must raise prices for the bus driver while simultaneously funding your procurement of chase vehicles.

Be creative, brainstorm solutions. And be ruthless... for the children.