Alice: Way more people will get hurt if you don’t help us.

Marina: Alice, friends don’t make friends grapple with the trolley problem.

The Magicians, s05e11, “Be The Hyman”

Hermetic quote The Magicians Be the Hyman friends don't make friends grapple with the trolley problem

Consider also:

  1. “Now what is the proper way to deal with people in this situation? There is only one sensible thing to do. We must remove the cause of their belief. Until we do this they are assuredly right in continuing to believe it.”
  2. “There is screaming, a grotesque, awful screaming coming from many human mouths, coming from somewhere down the main road. But that’s the only way he can go.”
  3. “For, sometimes, your heart seems as pure as the snow, While, at other times, dear, you’re one big Ho Ho Ho!”
  4. Death and Rebirth — March 10–12, 2023, Amsterdam, NL
  5. “How, o my Son, do thou then consider deeply of these Things in thine Ordering of the World under the Law of Thelema. For every Individual in the State must be perfect in his own Function, with Contentment, respecting his own Task as necessary and holy, not envious of another’s. For so only mayst thou build up a free state, whose directing Will shall be singly directed to the Welfare of all.”