Peter Freckleton

Dr Peter Freckleton is a barrister and quondam academic, with a doctorate in Linguistics (Paris). Through Post Polio Victoria and Polio Australia, he is developing an interest in human rights law.

Peter's recent articles

To hell in a trolley-car with a motley crew: utilitarians, triage urgers and Neo-Aztecs

And one of them, named Caiaphas, being the high priest that same year, said unto them, Ye know nothing at all, Nor consider that it is expedient for us, thatone man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.(John, 11:49-50 KJV). Covid-era debates over the intrinsic value of human life have trundled theTrolley Problem (broadly, one person killed to save five), into the public arena. The general concept is not new.