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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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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The push versions I've heard are kinda separate because they allow the option that YOU go on the track instead of throwing someone else. Because then it's not even just the amount of lives it's you choosing to make a choice for someone else that you could have personally done
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I initially saw "push" described as pushing "a very fat man" onto the track whose bulk would stop the trolley, with the implication that hte actor is not sufficiently bulky. I avoid framing it this way for obvious reasons.
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