Trolley Problem: My answer

Many know of the trolley problem, but for those who aren't, here's a question:
There's a train speeding towards 5 innocent people who will die if not stopped. You have the choice to turn the train to kill one person instead.

This dilemma basically challenges your ethics and here's my response: allow the train to run over the 5 innocent people. People may call me sick and mental for stating this answer, but the reason I do this is because I don't see the problem lies within the numbers. Of course, I may not be sound in math, however I am aware the number 5 is clearly a larger number than 1, but I don't believe numbers should apply to ethics.

What I see is when you turn the train or trolley on to that one man, you are responsible for intentionally murdering someone.

Sure 5 people may die, but your decision for killing someone is your responsibility from there on. Though one can say that man had "Heroically sacrificed" himself for 5 of his fellow men, however you can't call it a sacrifice. The only way this could be a "sacrifice" is if the person dying accepted his faith and decided to die himself and this sure as hell isn't "Heroic" to die without a say in this matter. We wouldn't call it a "Heroic sacrifice" if a deer died on the tracks instead of a man. We wouldn't call it a "Heroic sacrifice" if somehow Adolf Hitler was the one getting hit by this train.

This all changes when the fat man is involved.

The scenario continues: You have the choice of pushing a fat man on to the tracks and saving those same five people. Of course, I stayed consistent by saying I wouldn't push him to the tracks, because it should at least be a choice that the fat man makes. The scenario completely changes when the fat man is the one who got those 5 people in the tracks in the first place.

I'd push him on the tracks because I believe the man not only had plans to murder five people and from that point I believe the fat man had lost any right to decide if his life is worth more than those five. As much as I believe everyone doesn't deserve to die, I do believe some men don't deserve to live. And the fat man certainly doesn't deserve to live after plotting to kill five people. So I'd push him, his life isn't worth five and like previously stated, yes this isn't a "Heroic sacrifice" or even just a "sacrifice". I've intentionally murdered someone horrible and if his life is needed to reverse a crisis, then I'll be more than happy to do so.