An Unquiet Mind

Pro­logue
I decided to add this pro­logue after the first few com­ments to this post. This post uses an inci­dent in India, but is actu­ally uni­ver­sal in nature and focuses on the moral, philo­soph­i­cal, and eth­i­cal decision-making involved in an emer­gency.
Main Post
Imag­ine you’re trav­el­ing from Mum­bai to Pune by train, which is full to capac­ity, as …