@ErictheCerise while I appreciate the sentiment of the analysis (and agree that in practice that's a much more important aspect to address), that's not really the point of the problem: what it posits is a question on whether or not it's ethical to act to sacrifice someone (other than yourself) for the good of the many. The problem is, it does it very poorly because it gives a lot of leeway to interpretations that go beyond that. There may be nobody tying people to cars, it may be intrinsic.
@oblomov
Exactly! It's the fact that resources are limited that keeps tying people to the tracks — not some person. The most obvious one — time is limited: you can't be in two places at the same time to save everyone. When it becomes a trolley problem people attempt to break out of that predicate, some get very inventive at it. Completely ignoring the fact that such solution may not exist at all. "But I would be able to be at two places at once!"— okay, how exactly you do that?🤔
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