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I remember reading about a study someone did, where they asked random people what they'd do in such situations.

When the situation was "Five people are trapped on a railway, and the train is coming. The only way to save them is to pull the lever to switch to a seperate rail line, but a sixth person is on that line." Most people decided to pull the lever.

When the situation was "Five people are trapped on a railway, and the train is coming. The only way to save them is to drop something big and heavy on the rail line, but unfortunately somebody is trapped directly under the only heavy object available. No-one on the train is in harm's way, no matter what happens." The results, I believe, were quite split.

When the situation was the same as the second example, but the heavy object was a person who would slow the train enough, rather than an object, most people would not push the person on the train tracks.

It seems that although the end results in each case are the same (one dead instead of five), humans generally see a big difference between the situations.

Population control of introduced species is probably one of the few reasons for hunting I agree with. It's not being humane to let them devour everything, and then all die slowly of starvation. Of course it would be nice if there was a nicer way, like re-locating them all, but that seems highly unlikely, difficult and costly.

I always imagined Osmosis as what happened to a few too many of my D&D characters upon meeting a certain jelly-like Cube.

I've gotten a Baroness (and upgraded to Duchess, or whatever is next) and a Queen.

Don't know why all the nobles of all the civilizations in my game are female. Must be a matriachy or something.

I get seiged at least once a game year. The Dungeon Master is bugged, but there's a work-around for it somewhere, I just couldn't be bothered to find it.

I am here to Vote for the next topic.

Learning new stuff is good. I'm all for it.