You are an academic with a considerable, local reputation in your field and some respect overseas. You live in an authoritarian regime. You have the opportunity to work for the regime as an advisor in the implementation of public policies in your field.

You are Slobodan, a man living in a post-apocalyptic world full of zombies. You accept an offer to take a girl, Ana, who is immune to the zombie infection, to a group of revolutionaries who may be able to create a vaccine against the infection, and in return they will reward you richly. You have promised your partner that you will bring the girl to her destination, but before the most dangerous part of the road you come across a hidden and successful community surrounded by walls, where a normal and safe life is currently being lived, and one of the residents is your brother.

Paramilitary groups are not under the direct control of the state and are not part of the state army. However, they tend to fight for the benefit of a certain state and its political goals. Examples include the pro-Russian forces in eastern Ukraine and the paramilitary formations that fought in the Yugoslav Wars (e.g. Arkan's Tigers).

Under different Christian religions, Prosperity theology believes that financial and physical well-being depend on the will of God and that faith, positive attitudes and good deeds will increase one’s material wealth. Liberation theology believes that Christian salvation cannot be achieved without economic, political and social salvation of beings; thus, social inequality and the significant accumulation of wealth contradict God’s will and are a consequence of sin.

For the purpose of this debate, the “New Left” believes that left-leaning parties should prioritize a series of social issues (minority rights, feminist struggles, environmental reforms) instead of economic and class related policies (wealth redistribution policies, labor reforms).

Slobodan Praljak was a Catholic, Croatian commander from Bosnia and Herzegovina, and a general of the Croatian army. In 2017, the International Criminal Court for the former Yugoslavia sentenced him to 20 years in prison for crimes against Muslims in Bosnia and Herzegovina. After the verdict was pronounced, he drank poison with the words: "Judges, Slobodan Praljak is not a war criminal. I reject your verdict with contempt!", and died soon after.

Shareholder activism involves the owners of shares (whether individual or institutional investors) lobbying companies in which they have shares to improve their corporate behaviour. Divestment campaigns involve demanding investors to sell their shares in morally problematic industries.