A thought experiment that allows too broad of range of choices tends to not be granular enough to yield meaningful results. The first thing one needs to know is what question is being asked or what hypothesis tested. The experiment must then be designed in a way to test that question. For example, if the question is do people value a vulnerable user life more than multiple people's lives, allowing a reality-based set of answers cannot answer that question because too much noise is introduced. Thus to find the preference the answers must limit the choices severely.

Unless you are chatting on an internet forum, then answers can cover the range of both possible and impossible solutions, and per the internet standard, nothing much is learned nor determined. Who'd a thunk it.