Ethics already has a lot of very "quantitative" problems it deals with: for example, see all the variants of the trolley problem where there is a concrete numbe

Ethics already has a lot of very "quantitative" problems it deals with: for example, see all the variants of the trolley problem where there is a concrete number of individuals to save/kill on each track [0]. Or Hardin's lifeboat [1]. Further, CS is not the first quantitative discipline to need to deal with ethical problems attached to hard numbers of human lives. For example, Medical ethics deals this problem with eg triage in emergencies and engineering ethics has had to deal with it for as long as people have been building things. So there is a lot of prior art to be built on. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem [1] http://www.garretthardinsociety.org/articles/art_lifeboat_ethics_case_against_helping_poor.html http://www.garretthardinsociety.org/articles/art_lifeboat_et...