Trolley problems are exceedingly uncommon in the wild. If someone is going out of their way to use them to justify something, and everyone on the track you pull the lever to hit happens to be a minority, that person is just being a bigot & using "pragmatism" or whatever as cover
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The "pull the switch" vs "push them onto the tracks" version is about *how responsible you are* for the person's death, which seems to me to be a lot less compelling than the question of consent
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If you want to get into it, "switch vs push" is like the difference between the organ donor coming into my ER and me letting them die on the table, vs them being perfectly healthy and me strangling them in an alley One feels worse but it's really the same thing
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