re: #66 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut

I’d be kind of okay with making whoever saved the most number of lives over the course of a 4 year span be installed in a role of ‘conscience of the president’ where they got veto power on executive actions, but that’d be a difficult calculus. What if some riveter noted some cracks in the welds on a bridge and called attention to the problem, thus saving a bridge from collapsing? What if someone developed a vaccine? Highly troublesome calculus, but fun, would give work to ethicists and lots of associated PhDs.

You’d get people listening to a police scanner and running to every accident in the hopes of ‘saving’ someone.