You are at a lever. A trolley is approaching 5 people tied to the track. You can pull the lever to diver the trolley to the other track, giving another person at the lever the same options you had.
Do you pull the lever?
Duh! Making it somebody else's problem with no drawbacks?
That trolley is in for infinite switches.
If everyone pull the lever to the other track, the trolley may stop moving because will at some time because it would need some oil refreshment or some Murphy's law happens.
that assumes a indefinitely large number of levers, and if so the trolley's efficiency can follow Moore's law or sth idk
It'll never hit anybody if we all collectively divert the trolley! Hooray!
Pull the lever. 1. I'll save the people down the line from the anguish of having to choose. 2. I don't want to risk the next person pulling the lever for the wrong reasons. 3. If I don't pull the lever, I might be the person laying on the track when someone else pulls the lever. This is why I'm either (a) no good at, or (b) chaotic good at, RPGs.
Edit, typo