Questions

March, 1988

At a fashionable dinner party in Chicago, the hostess reads aloud from The Book of Questions, a best-selling paperback by Gregory Stock:" 'Would you be willing to murder an innocent person if it would end hunger in the world?' "" 'Assume there were a technological breakthrough that would allow people to travel as easily and cheaply between continents as between nearby cities. Unfortunately, there would also be 100,000 deaths a year from the device. Would you try to prevent its use...