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Heh it’s a fun “gotcha” kind of modification. Alas, it misunderstands the thought experiment. They’re not changing the emotional valence. They are removing a fundamental aspect of a dilemma: harm. One of the purposes of the trolley problem is to provoke the thinker into questioning what they believe about moral responsibility and (in)action.
It’s changing the problem from definite harm and potential upside to definite upside and potential harm.
It makes sense people value potential harm different from potential upside.
I’m sorry, I don’t quite understand. What is the potential harm in the comic?
The guy who might wander onto tracks doesn’t even exist in reality. He’s a hypothetical in the mind of the guy with his hands on the lever.
