<div dir="ltr"><p style="padding:0px 0px 1em;margin:0px;outline:none;list-style:none;border:0px none;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:13px">Note to presenter<br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;outline:none;list-style:none;border:0px none">Enjoyed your piece on the trolley problem, it’s something I’ve thought a lot about over the years.</p><p style="padding:0px 0px 1em;margin:0px;outline:none;list-style:none;border:0px none;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:13px">A couple of comments:</p><p style="padding:0px 0px 1em;margin:0px;outline:none;list-style:none;border:0px none;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:13px">One of the things I’ve thought a lot about is the characterization of Chazal as being consequentialist or deontological, etc. I just wonder if we are trying to put their thoughts into our paradigms or whether they had their own different paradigm which was completely consistent with another theory.</p><p style="padding:0px 0px 1em;margin:0px;outline:none;list-style:none;border:0px none;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:13px">I also wonder about the Chazon Ish’s”maaseh hatzala” postion as to whether it was driven by a totally rational analysis of the sources or whether much like the Rav’s clergy/draft responsa, he had an innate sense of what the answer should be, and then built a case for it</p><p style="padding:0px 0px 1em;margin:0px;outline:none;list-style:none;border:0px none;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:13px">I certainly think that the innate sense would apply to the various formulations of why war is different.</p><p style="padding:0px 0px 1em;margin:0px;outline:none;list-style:none;border:0px none;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:13px">In any case, I think you did an excellent job of summarizing the various opinions and approaches. Thanks and bsorot tovot</p><p style="padding:0px 0px 1em;margin:0px;outline:none;list-style:none;border:0px none;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:13px"><br></p><p style="padding:0px 0px 1em;margin:0px;outline:none;list-style:none;border:0px none;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:13px">your thoughts?</p><p style="padding:0px 0px 1em;margin:0px;outline:none;list-style:none;border:0px none;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:13px">Joel rich</p></div>