Regarding the Trolley problem, it doesn't make sense to push someone off a bridge in order to save 5 people, this is very different from just flicking a switch for several reasons:
- There is a chance that this plan might fail and 6 people would get killed instead of 5.
- Maybe there is a reason why the 5 people are tied to train tracks - Honest people don't usually end up like this - Maybe they're in the mafia and their deaths would be an expected consequence of their high-risk criminal lifestyle. On the other hand, the guy standing on the bridge is more likely to be a regular person who did nothing wrong.
- You would go to jail for manslaughter.
- You would psychologically damage yourself by pushing the person off a bridge.
- Maybe you have an undiagnosed case of schizophrenia and the 5 people on the tracks are not real. The odds of it being an illusion (and that you are crazy) are probably higher than it being real - It's quite arrogant to trust your own senses (to the point of killing someone) when you're confronted with such an incredibly unlikely situation.
- There is a chance that this plan might fail and 6 people would get killed instead of 5.
- Maybe there is a reason why the 5 people are tied to train tracks - Honest people don't usually end up like this - Maybe they're in the mafia and their deaths would be an expected consequence of their high-risk criminal lifestyle. On the other hand, the guy standing on the bridge is more likely to be a regular person who did nothing wrong.
- You would go to jail for manslaughter.
- You would psychologically damage yourself by pushing the person off a bridge.
- Maybe you have an undiagnosed case of schizophrenia and the 5 people on the tracks are not real. The odds of it being an illusion (and that you are crazy) are probably higher than it being real - It's quite arrogant to trust your own senses (to the point of killing someone) when you're confronted with such an incredibly unlikely situation.