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I thought it was interesting that so many people chose to pull the lever and become personally responsible for the outcome in many of these scenarios. Like the ones not involving people dying for instance, I don't want to be personally responsible for destroying 1 trolley just because some idiot had set one on a path to destroy 3, I can just see the shitstorm some stupid company will kick up in order to make me pay there for example.
But if you are by the lever and know the outcome of pulling it (as is implicitly the presumption in these thoughts experiments), are you not personally responsible for choosing the outcome either way?
That only makes sense if you think in terms of law to the detriment of morality.
Does responsibility play any role in morality?