Sorry, but I can’t help myself. The original trolley problem did not have people tied to tracks. It had workers working on the track. My point is that the question is a little closer when the people bear some responsibility for being there.
Whoever tied them to the tracks is the killer. Falling to save everyone doesn't violate his honor.
I know trolley problems are attempting to get at moral intuitions about action vs inaction, but it doesn't really work here. Batman, as a superhero, is supposed to foil evil plots.
Locking up criminals in close quarters, treating them poorly, and disenfranchising them for life is morally superior to outright killing them.
But providing the basic necessities to the poor any needy will make them lazy and degenerate. Not the trust fund babies tho.
I'm writing a story/novel, and the FIRST "serious" critique I received was, following a character mocking batman in a short paragraph, that I had been unfair to Batman. I am *very* amused by some of the comments here...
Is my story sexist? full of typos, clucky narrative structure, bad pacing, excessively niche, is Renee a token character?.... no, no, the real issue is how I portrayed batman in one paragraph out of a 100 k words :D :D :D :D