You are a specialist in your field, with a world-wide, excellent reputation, when you are asked to participate in a high-profile study - along with other experts from various disciplines and representatives of policymakers. You accept and contribute, to the best of your abilities - yet none of your input is reflected in the final report. What is [...]

A politician plans to do something that you consider to be a good (or even great) thing. Then you find out their reasoning for doing it is totally misguided.... Would you continue to support that politician?

In 1842, a ship struck an iceberg and more than 30 survivors were crowded into a lifeboat intended to hold 7. As a storm threatened, it became obvious that the lifeboat would have to be lightened if anyone were to survive. The captain reasoned that the right thing to do in this situation was to force some individuals to go over the side and drown. [...]