A variant that occurred to me the other day: You are a Roman citizen at the Colosseum. Godzilla is in the ring. Five gladiators are released to go fight and di

A variant that occurred to me the other day: You are a Roman citizen at the Colosseum. Godzilla is in the ring. Five gladiators are released to go fight and die. But you can pull a lever to swing the cage door, so that only one person is sent to die instead. Most likely answer: five gladiators dying is more entertaining than one. I think there's even more cultural factors to the trolley problem than we usually consider.