There are people who die waiting for organ donors, and a single donor could match multiple people. We do not find an appropriate donor and harvest them. This is the trolley problem, applied.
My actual words quoted below give one extra detail that makes all the difference, one that I see people silently dropped in a rush to reply. The words were aimed at someone taking these problems in a too literal sense, as extra evidence that they are not to be taken as such but as food for though that has real life applicability.
> the trolley problem isn’t really about real humans in that situation
I don't think that matches the trolley problem particularly well for all sorts of reasons. But anyway your point is irrelevant - his claim was that the trolley problem isn't about real humans, not that people would pull the lever.
Edit: never mind, I reread your comment and I think you were also agreeing with that.
Is it though? Let's look at the comment [0] written 8h before your reply:
> the trolley problem isn’t really about real humans in that situation
As in "don't take things absolutely literally like you were doing, because you'll absolutely be wrong". You found a way to compound the mistake by dropping the critical information then taking absolutely literally what was left.
The reason is that murdering people for organs has massive second-order effects: public fear, the desire to avoid medical care if harvesting is done in those contexts, disproportionate targeting of the organ harvesting onto the least fortunate, etc.
So what? It's still presented as if it's a interesting problem that needs to be "remedied", when in fact it's just a basic maths mistake.
If I said "ooo look at this paradox: 1 + 1 = 2, but if I add another one then we get 1 + 1 + 1 = 2, which is clearly false! I call this IshKebab's mugging.", you would rightly say "that is dumb; go away" rather than write a Wikipedia article about the "paradox" and "remedies".
> Similarly the trolley problem isn’t really about real humans in that situation, or else the correct answer would always be “do nothing”.
It absolutely wouldn't. I don't know how anyone with any morals could claim that.