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Obviously, replacing the lever with the fat man complicates the analysis beyond a simple payoff matrix.
There is not enough time to reliably convince yourself that your perceived consequences of pushing, and the associated payoff matrix, are accurate.
The train is too literally "near", and it is perfectly rational to default to your extremely useful, and emotionally forceful, "don't push people off bridges" heuristic.
The interesting point about this trolley business never gets mentioned; I'll have to do it myself. It comes when you're on the bridge- YOOO could be the individual thrown over. Thus you need your philosophical theory well worked out to be quickly persuasive as the big strong man next to you wonders what he should do. An example of how philosophy is vital to life.