Quote Originally Posted by Aliquid View Post
Interesting, that's not how I learned it... If that is truly the official scenario, I am in agreement with Max_Killjoy, the dilemma is utterly pointless and contrived because the one who tied them up has all of the blood on their hands.
As demonstrated by empirical research that uses the trolley problem, the underlined part is not actually agreed upon by all peoples, nor is the point of the exercise to determine whether the person who tied the people on the tracks is guilty. Answering whether that person is guilty does not actually answer what you are supposed to do in the situation.