Anti-vaxxers have mitigating social factors; They're heavily propagandized and live in a world where objective reality is being violently assaulted at all times. There's no mitigating factors in the thought experiment. The "tie themselves to the trolley line" people were presumably suicidal.
We could argue that the 5-trolley enthusiasts have been heavily propagandized, or joined a death cult. In one way or another, we are externalizing the decision of 5 + 1 (or more) into the hands of 1 person. All of the contextual information is just rorscharching your morality. I see anti-vaxxers willfully jumping into the meat grinder therefore I wouldn't piss on them if they were on fire. I do however make a point to criticize the system that got them willfully and gleefully jumping into the meatgrinder in the first place. Let them be a cautionary tale.
Think about all of the covid skeptics and anti-vaxxers whose severity of illness and time spent in hospitals could have been reduced but instead ended up taking space in our (already bed-and-staff-scarce) hospital systems. Disabled people, cancer patients, heart disease patients, etc. died because of the anti-vaxx movement. In a lot of places, hospitals activated triage scenarios where resources were diverted to "healthier" patients, leaving the marginalized and chronically ill to die. I don't have a single fucking ounce of empathy for them.
Anti-vaxxers have mitigating social factors; They're heavily propagandized and live in a world where objective reality is being violently assaulted at all times. There's no mitigating factors in the thought experiment. The "tie themselves to the trolley line" people were presumably suicidal.
We could argue that the 5-trolley enthusiasts have been heavily propagandized, or joined a death cult. In one way or another, we are externalizing the decision of 5 + 1 (or more) into the hands of 1 person. All of the contextual information is just rorscharching your morality. I see anti-vaxxers willfully jumping into the meat grinder therefore I wouldn't piss on them if they were on fire. I do however make a point to criticize the system that got them willfully and gleefully jumping into the meatgrinder in the first place. Let them be a cautionary tale.
Think about all of the covid skeptics and anti-vaxxers whose severity of illness and time spent in hospitals could have been reduced but instead ended up taking space in our (already bed-and-staff-scarce) hospital systems. Disabled people, cancer patients, heart disease patients, etc. died because of the anti-vaxx movement. In a lot of places, hospitals activated triage scenarios where resources were diverted to "healthier" patients, leaving the marginalized and chronically ill to die. I don't have a single fucking ounce of empathy for them.