All these trolley problems are absurdly framed. There is only one correct answer to any trolley problem: 无. In effect you have to unask the question, step back, and look at the framing.
The framing wants you to look at the switch so that you ignore the real question: which asshole is going around and tying people (or cats (or paintings (or trees (or …)))) on the tracks just so they can get their jollies by watching you make moral choices while people get killed? Find that asshole and you stop all trolley problems forever.
All these trolley problems are absurdly framed. There is only one correct answer to any trolley problem: 无. In effect you have to unask the question, step back, and look at the framing.
The framing wants you to look at the switch so that you ignore the real question: which asshole is going around and tying people (or cats (or paintings (or trees (or …)))) on the tracks just so they can get their jollies by watching you make moral choices while people get killed? Find that asshole and you stop all trolley problems forever.