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Not really. I am mildly opposed to asking trolley problem questions. I mostly just observed that, in my brain, there wasn't much difference between:
Set of 5 people where either 1 dies or 5 die.
Set of 6 people where either 1 dies or 5 die.
I wasn't sure exactly what work the word 'unsalvageable' was doing: was it that this person cannot in principle be saved, so er life is 'not counted', and really you have
Set of 4 people where either none die or 4 die?
Yes, that's the idea.
I see. My brain automatically does the math for me and sees 1 or 5 as equivalent to none or four. I think it assumes that human lives are fungible or something.
That's a good brain. Pat it or something.