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There may be other explanations I haven't adequately considered, but the impression I get from the people with whom I've discussed the matter, and on whom I based the post, is that they haven't internalized the idea that the world is inconvenient enough to call for a systematic way of dealing with problems that lack ideal solutions.
In consequentialist terms, I don't suppose that this is actually worse than constructing an ethical system that simply justifies natural non utilitarian inclinations post hoc, but it strikes me as sigificantly more naive.
I suspect that they have internalized the idea that the world allows for ideal solutions, or at least non-negative solutions, because so much current fiction is based on happy endings.
I wonder if people from cultures which include tragic fiction would tend to answer the trolley problem differently.
There hasn't been an extensive global survey that I'm aware of but reasonably diverse samples have turned up apx. zero divergence between demographic groups
Btw folks, Phillipa Foot died last month. RIP.