These discussions always bring up the Trolley Problem which I find to be pretty insidious. The trolley problem is designed to hide the real moral issue. Here is

These discussions always bring up the Trolley Problem which I find to be pretty insidious. The trolley problem is designed to hide the real moral issue. Here is the original Trolley Problem for comparison. “Suppose that a judge or magistrate is faced with rioters demanding that a culprit be found for a certain crime and threatening otherwise to take their own bloody revenge on a particular section of the community. The real culprit being unknown, the judge sees himself as able to prevent the bloodshed only by framing some innocent person and having him executed. Beside this example is placed another in which a pilot whose airplane is about to crash is deciding whether to steer from a more to a less inhabited area. To make the parallel as close as possible it may rather be supposed that he is the driver of a runaway tram which he can only steer from one narrow track on to another; five men are working on one track and one man on the other; anyone on the track he enters is bound to be killed. In the case of the riots the mob have five hostages, so that in both examples the exchange is supposed to be one man's life for the lives of five.” The whole thing starts with a pretty elitist framework, that the best way to run society is to lie to the public because they can’t be trusted. The problem then ends with the infamous trolley problem which is so stripped down of any context it’s basically a dark pattern. You are expected to choose who is to die instead of wondering why do people keep getting run over by trolleys? Why does anyone have to die? Why can’t the track workers have safe working conditions?