There’s the added factor here of putting your loved ones in the position of either…
A: Killing one person (let’s presume it’s someone they also care about)…
B: Killing three people, or…
C: All dying horribly
In no scenario do your loved ones get to control the outcome, and it’s presumably a horrible experience for them regardless. I’d say that the math favors not pulling the lever. It has a 100% chance of your loved ones only being forced to passively kill one person, as opposed to whatever the odds are in scenarios B or C of even greater numbers of fatalities being on their consciences.
There’s the added factor here of putting your loved ones in the position of either…
A: Killing one person (let’s presume it’s someone they also care about)…
B: Killing three people, or…
C: All dying horribly
In no scenario do your loved ones get to control the outcome, and it’s presumably a horrible experience for them regardless. I’d say that the math favors not pulling the lever. It has a 100% chance of your loved ones only being forced to passively kill one person, as opposed to whatever the odds are in scenarios B or C of even greater numbers of fatalities being on their consciences.