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"Mini" Decoding of Konstantin Kisin's Oxford Union speech
Decoding the Gurus
Is It a False Dichotomy?
Constantine: If you said to me that I had a choice, either my son had a serious risk of starving or dying from a preventable disease in the next year, or I could press a button. And for every day of my son's life, a giant plume of CO2 is going to get released into the atmosphere. There is not a parent in the world who would not smash that button so hard to handle it. So does that mean that actually people don't mind if they kill one person by pushing the button and your child gets the survive? It's almost the definition of a false dichotomy. We shouldn't have to belabor the point why it's just
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