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  • The reality is this is an absurd proposition (absurd in the philosophical sense). Trollies have safety features and if you understand engineering, you understand that things are designed to fail safely.

    If something were to cause the trolley to hit anyone, that’s a freak accident caused by a casaced of decisions that were made before you had the option to pull the lever. No one would hold you accountable for your decision, and the reality is the choice you make doesn’t matter. Just go to therapy afterwards please.

    Explore more ridiculous trolley questions here.

    One more thing, another version of the trolley question is this:

    Suppose six people are in a coma. One person will recover without intervention. Five will die unless they all receive organ transplants from the person that would otherwise survive. Do you intervene, killing one person to saving save five, or standby, watching five die while one survives.