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There's another version of the trolley problem that's even squickier than the "push a man onto the track" version...
-- Judith Jarvis Thomson, The Trolley Problem, 94 Yale Law Journal 1395-1415 (1985)
For some reason, it's a lot less comfortable to endorse murdering the patient than it is to endorse pushing the fat man onto the track...
I'm not. If I hadn't heard about this or the trolly problem or equivalent I'd probably do it without thinking and then be surprised when people criticised the decision.