Does your answer for the trolley problem change depending on these variations? Test your ethical judgement!

1. Classic Trolley Problem: A trolley is barreling down the tracks, headed towards a group of five people. A bystander near the switch can divert the trolley so it misses the group but kills a single rider standing on a second track. Should an ethical bystander allow five to die, or intervene so only one dies … but from the bystander’s own actions?

2. Variation #1: Suppose the group of five consists of: a Gavin Newsom supporter, a Trump-appointed district court justice who aspires to the Supreme Court but must first pass the bar (note: he’d settle for Attorney General), a cisgender female athlete who lost to a transwoman and now supports the “Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act,” Benjamin Netanyahu, and a man who finally learned the rules of curling by watching the Olympics (though he thinks a “rink” is the playing area and jokes – dad jokes – that his daughter, a curler, is cute as a “button”) (none of which his daughter finds amusing). What should the bystander do?

3. Variation #2: Suppose the lone........

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