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One thing to be aware of is that if you just ask "Is X right" you won't get the negation of "Is X wrong."
Also, several of the questions involve time-pressure. For me, any time-pressure will bias me towards inaction; it's a heuristic that if someone is pressuring me to make a decision quickly, they are probably trying to cause a decision I wouldn't make when calmer. It's illogical when applied to agentless sources of time-pressure, but still applies.
Agree with your first point. For the second point, I felt like I had to add some artifice because otherwise the morally correct choice in almost all situations would seem to obviously be "ask humanity and let it choose for itself"! Which is correct, but not very interesting.
(In any case, I'm not actually that interested in these particular moral puzzles, I have other purposes in asking...)