Do not try to solve the trolley problem—that's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth: There is no trolley. General Motors bought them all up and had them dumped in the ocean.

@theropologist I'm never sure quite how to tell people that I've never met a policy analyst who takes the Trolley Problem seriously.

It's reductive, overly simplistic...but the worst part is, it seems almost designed to encourage a really unhealthy attitude towards difficult situations like cost-benefit analyses.