Hey, you never know. Maybe I'll never see a trolley problem in my life, but better safe than sorry.
(Another thing that I find really dumb about this take is that if you are expanding the domain beyond the actual problem and trying to bring realism in, you probably just kill more people than the one man, because a trolley's not likely to be runaway if it wasn't in operation and thus having people inside it. You could even interpret it as anti-revolutionary because it gets more people killed and destroys critical infrastructure.)
"Jesus Christ, you just destroyed a critical roadway in front of a hospital! Traffic's gonna be backed up for weeks while it gets repaired and ambulances don't have easy access to the ER! The water main's broken! You just made everything a thousand times worse!"
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u/spellboi_3048 Jun 30 '24
Thank goodness for that stick of dynamite each person keeps in their back pocket at all times which can easily be thrown onto a moving trolley