The trolley problem is one of those philosophical questions where you’re not supposed to actually think about it in the context of a real world situation. Because the obvious solution to the trolley problem is to yell “look out for the speeding trolley, why you standing still in the road you idiot?”

But generally they don’t accept that answer.

I’m convinced that one of the main reasons that people don’t really like philosophy is because it’s full of got you trick questions like that