We actually aren’t constrained into atrocious premises by thought exercises. Obstacles are a reason to fight, not an excuse to quit. Our friends and neighbors aren’t distractions…

Instant classic. It is highly relevant, because transgender rights are also framed as an extra bonus that can easily be sacrificed for more acceptable causes, like climate change or even …other minorities, somehow.

The author re-defines what the trolley problem is supposed to be, and shows that the popular centrist reading of it is in fact a misrepresentation. There is a second step in the thought experiment, which introduces compassion. Taking just the first step of the exercise to justify selective suspension of human rights for strategic and political reasons is unacceptable.