You might have deluded yourself into thinking fence sitting or becoming a bystander is more ethical but it’s often not.
It’s usually the easier choice and requires the least amount of effort and immediate danger, which is why most choose it, but that is not at all the same thing as ethical.
If you walk away from the trolley lever, that’s still a choice and doesn’t save you from the dilemma.
Inaction to you might be me choosing a method I think is ethical but isn’t as effective as well.
You might have deluded yourself into thinking fence sitting or becoming a bystander is more ethical but it’s often not.
It’s usually the easier choice and requires the least amount of effort and immediate danger, which is why most choose it, but that is not at all the same thing as ethical.
If you walk away from the trolley lever, that’s still a choice and doesn’t save you from the dilemma.
It’s not fence sitting. I have a very clear ethical position and I’ll argue for it vociferously.
And the closest to moral answer is to kill the one person, but jump in front of the train myself. I don’t see much utility in such an extreme example.
I think we’ve gotten a little vague here.
What’s your “ethical position”? Is it to platform Nazis?