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[Florian]

The trolley problem is less about morality and more about humans panicking in high stress situations.

But that is the point of why you use it to discuss morality, along with the different between objective morality and subjective morality (and why punishment is an important indicator here).

To discuss it, you must set it aside and discuss morality first and establish how that should be expressed, then you analyze the scenario itself, from there on going to analyze the actions and decisions of the participants testing the scenario, weighting their decisions and actions.

Example: Topic - Causing death. (aka crime)

Capital Crime - no mitigating factors.
A - Planned murder, ordered murder
B - Willfull murder
Non-Capital Crime - mitigating factors (up or down).
C - Causing death due to willful neglect, accepting causing death as an outcome
D - Causing death due to neglect, causing death due to unavoidable outside factors
Non-Capital Crime - mitigating factors (down)
E - Causing death due to avoidable outside factors, causing an accident that results in causing death
.... and so on, going over to mitigating factors and discussion punishment as an expression of it.

So, the prep work to handle the scenario is way more telling than the scenario itself.