[imtringued]

>People don't make decisions with perfect information.

That is exactly the reason why the trolley problem is bad. People don't make decisions with perfect information, but the trolley problem is such a perfect information problem.

The thing is, people follow some sort of behavioural pattern that simplifies reality. Shooting people with guns is bad, therefore killing people with switches is bad. Choosing to kill people with switches might make them more likely to kill people with guns and people with guns are more of a danger than people not flipping switches.

These heuristics aren't optimal in theoretical scenarios that test the limits, but they work in every day scenarios.

[jncfhnb]

The trolley problem has more information and stats than someone is likely to ever encounter but it’s hardly an inconceivable level of information for a thought experiment