“Did you live with her?” “No, not primarily, although at the end,
we brought her to New York, where I was living, for a series of experimental tortures
that increased the misery of her days without increasing the number of them.”
After a second, I said,So it’s like you gave her this second life where she got to be a teenager.”
“I suppose that would be a fair assessment,” he said, and then quickly added,
“I assume you are familiar with Philippa Foot’s Trolley Problem thought experiment?”
And then I show up at your house and I’m dressed like the girl you hoped she would live to become and you’re, like, all taken aback by it.”
There’s a trolley running out of control down a track,” he said.
I don’t care about your stupid thought experiment,” I said.
“It’s Philippa Foot’s, actually.” “Well, hers either,” I said.
She didn’t understand why it was happening,” he said. “I had to tell her she would die.
Her social worker said I had to tell her. I had to tell her she would die, so I told her she was going to heaven.
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