![]() ![]() "I was like, 'No, this is a really interesting way into the trolley problem.' And she said, 'I don't think this book is about the trolley problem.'" ![]() " was like, 'I can't tell if this is a joke,'" Green laughed of his attempted ending. In that case, there's just one death, but you're the actual killer.Ĭan you imagine TFiOS ending that way? Nope, and neither could John's editor. Choice B is to pull a lever that sends the train onto a different track where only one person is tied up. It asks, What you would do if you saw a runaway train barreling toward five people who are tied to the tracks? Choice A is to do nothing, allowing all five people to die. Some quick background for those who don't know: The trolley problem is a classic thought experiment taught in ethics. (Skip ahead to the 49-minute mark to hear for yourself.) "In the second draft of The Fault In Our Stars, the novel ends shortly after Van Houten ties one of the characters to railroad tracks as an exploration of the 'trolley problem,' which is a really interesting idea to me in philosophy," John revealed on the Nerdist podcast last Tuesday. ![]() ![]() The other ending was equally tragic - and dare we say, totally insane. ![]()
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