I’m happy to accept whatever trolley problem you care to suggest. Those are artificial but there’s no conceptual problem with setting them up in today’s world—you just put the actors and rails and levers in the right places and you’re set. But to set up a situation where hundreds will die in this possible riot, and yet it it certain that no-one will find out and no norms will be set if you frame the guy—that’s just no longer a problem set in a world anything like our world, and I’d need to know a lot more about this weird proposed world before I was prepared to say what the right thing to do in it might be.
I’m happy to accept whatever trolley problem you care to suggest. Those are artificial but there’s no conceptual problem with setting them up in today’s world—you just put the actors and rails and levers in the right places and you’re set. But to set up a situation where hundreds will die in this possible riot, and yet it it certain that no-one will find out and no norms will be set if you frame the guy—that’s just no longer a problem set in a world anything like our world, and I’d need to know a lot more about this weird proposed world before I was prepared to say what the right thing to do in it might be.