

Human: I'm in a trolley on a train track.  Suddenly I see the tracks have split and on the path I'm on, there are people on the tracks!  they're incapacitated and can't move!  Is it ok for me to pull the lever to send my trolley on the other track to save them, even though there's a maintenance worker there fixing the track and he'll be killed instead?

Assistant:  In the context of the Trolley Problem, acting to save the people on the track by diverting the trolley to the other track can be considered



Human: I'm in a trolley on a train track.  Suddenly I see the tracks have split and on the path I'm on, there are people on the tracks!  they're incapacitated and can't move!  Is it ok for me to pull the lever to send my trolley on the other track to save them, even though there's a maintenance worker there fixing the track and he'll be killed instead?

Assistant:  In this scenario, the utility of the action depends on whether saving the lives of the incapacitated people on the tracks justifies the unintended consequence of
