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The messy complicated real world never contains situations where you can sacrifice a few people to benefit many people?
Or if it does, in such situations we'll figure out the optimal action using completely different considerations from those we would use in the idealized case?
I don't believe either of those.
Of course, it does. This is why such hypotheticals are used to entrap politicians, the ones who usually have the job of making the decision.
It's not clear to me whether the avoidance or entrapment came first.