The situation seems pretty clear to me, it's a thought experiment and doesn't allow for any other conditions than those mentioned, so you couldn't "fuck it up" by always flipping the switch. The only reasonable thing to do is to save the five people, not be a coward and pretend like you wouldn't be killing them if you didn't do anything. And I'm not calling Thena a coward, I'm just answering the question in the OP, but I will admit I read the other replies first and it influenced my own.
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| I will choose to push the fat man onto the tracks. | 2 | 28.57% | |
| I will choose to do nothing. | 5 | 71.43% | |
| Total | 7 vote(s) | 100% | |
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