The Trolley Problem is Silly

The Trolley Problem - a moral philosophy thought experiment - contrasts deontological and consequentialist reasoning by asking whether it is permissible to intervene in a runaway trolley scenario by diverting the trolley onto a track where it will kill one person instead of five. It purports to weigh the moral status of actively causing harm against the moral status of allowing greater harm to occur. And it’s silly, imposing a fatally flawed model of analysis. Replacing this model with a simple, logical approach reveals the resolution to the problem without moral ambiguity.