Then add in some irrelevant noise considerations, such as “one of the people on the tracks who is about to die is your wife, but the guy you are going to push off is a war veteran”, etc. The dilemma doesn’t have to be fine tuned—a broad variety of choices all exhibit the same properties.
Well if you fine-tune the conditions of a hypothetical dilemma too much, people will tend to go with a useful heuristic: they will call bullshit.
Then add in some irrelevant noise considerations, such as “one of the people on the tracks who is about to die is your wife, but the guy you are going to push off is a war veteran”, etc. The dilemma doesn’t have to be fine tuned—a broad variety of choices all exhibit the same properties.