Ethical Reasoning is already a fun class bc the first assignment includes this whopper of a thought experiment:

“Lisa’s bank account has been accessed by hackers, who are withdrawing $200 from it every five minutes. The bank will not reimburse the stolen funds, and - even worse - will seize Lisa’s assets to pay off any debt. Lisa must simply take a short walk to her bank and put a hold on her account to stop the hackers, a trip that - quite conveniently - takes less than five minutes and is already part of Lisa’s daily routine. On her way, however, she notices an innumerable amount of children drowning in individual pools, each of which will drown if Lisa does not save them. It would take five minutes for her to reach a child and pull them to safety. Lisa must decide how many children to pull to safety before she enters the bank to keep her own interests intact, but once she enters the bank, every child she does not save will drown. Unfortunately for Lisa, in a sisyphean twist of cruel fate, this scenario will occur - without fail - every day for the remainder of her life. Neither the hackers, nor the endless pools of drowning children, will ever cease. How many children is Lisa morally obligated to rescue before entering the bank?”

Sometimes I fantasize that philosophers who hypothesize especially cruel thought experiments be condemned to endure them forever in the afterlife as if they were figures in Greek mythology