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The answer is the same as the original trolley problem. The only morally correct things to do is nothing, regardless of the outcome. If I don't pull the lever and my loved one dies it wasn't me who liked them. They were killed by whomever put them on the tracks.
Freudian autocarrot
Lol
so I should keep the trolley running to kill the 1 billion people, and not divert it to run over my neighbors cousins old and dying cat?
It's crazy how if you change the situation entirely you get a different result and optimal action
The point of the trolley problem isn't really about utilitarianism or whatever, it's to demonstrate that inaction can be an action.
The action/non-action question is one part of the problem, but not the sole or defining one to me. An certainly there is no simple answer as you suggest.
It's a secret they only teach you in Philosophy 102.
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