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Have you read Julius Reuchel’s essay “Bystander at the Switch”? It covers the trolley problem beautifully. His one graphic “Illusion versus Reality” in particular.

https://theideasinstitute.org/2022/02/04/bystander-at-the-switch-the-moral-case-against-mandatory

One may forsee and make a judgement on the the intentional consequences of your actions, but not the unintentional. May I recommend "Economics in One Lesson" by Henry Hazlitt, if you are interested in that kind of thing.

I’m not 100% convinced of what you meant to say but as I read this I totally disagree. People often do terrible things unthinkingly. They seemingly are unaware of the consequences of their actions. But if they had thought for one minute those consequences would easily have been foreseeable. That’s why we have different degrees of murder. But they’re all murder. And you go to jail for all of them.

Socialist policies are perfect examples of this. Rents are too high? Restrict rental rates. Twenty years later there are no rentals. Gee! No one could have anticipated that! In Canada there is an elderly politician fighting the mandates saying they are against the Charter of Rights. He was one of the writers of the Charter. NO! They are fully in line with the Charter. Which gives governments tons of loopholes to work around it. Enshrined in an unchangeable document. At the time of …