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It's an abstraction over many real world scenarios.
Example: You are one of two people in the hospital waiting for an organ transplant. One becomes available, and it's basically guaranteed that there won't be another arriving in time to help both of you. You can exert influence to get that transplant, and so can the other person. Do you do it?
Who put you into this situation and what crimes should they be charged with?
Not to call anyone out but trying to be literal, contextualize and overanalyze abstract though experiments is one of the neurodivergent test questions
And this is no way means to be assigning value, more of an awareness notion
I do and have seen what you're trying to mean (and I tried to frame in a way that'd alleviate the known problematics.)
But we're also going into the overthinking direction.
It isn't a different scenario.
The point is that it is a hypothetical situation where you have to decide whether you want to influence an other persons death if it might save yours or not. The context does not matter at all.
You don't get other options, you have to choose. And based on your answer, you will reveal your morality.
You put these in the same context, like a trolley problem, so you can easily compare them to other problems.
If you think the context doesn't matter, then you've failed the class outright.