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  • These are definitely not analogous arguments, but your conclusions do both fall under a utilitarian moral umbrella. By this reasoning every individual is morally required, like the other commenter says, to do whatever is necessary to bring about the greater good for the greater number. Sounds nice on paper until you start visualizing the actual implications of the theory. Take a look at the “no rest” problem that utilitarianism leads to.

    The trolley problem itself is designed to have no specifically correct answer, merely to be a vehicle (pardon my pun) for evaluating various moral frameworks, such as utilitarianism.