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Would you sell liquor to this baby?
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If we were to actually treat this as a moral dilemma, without external factors or trying to challenge the premise:
One of these is sentient. The other hundred are not. Much as my heart might bleed for the potential humans that will never be realised, my priority would be the living, feeling, crying one.
Actually, the crying might be an issue. I tend to be sensitive to some sounds, and particularly in a stressful situation, a wailing baby might be a detriment...
Still, I'm susceptible to emotional bias. I don't like babies or small children, but I won't pretend to be immune to the kind of protective reflex they tend to evoke in (sane) adults. So on top of the above reasoning, I would most likely save the baby, headache be damned.
And then I'd go and find whoever set up this cruel choice in the first place. Why would I be in such a clinic in the first place? Why would it catch on fire? Why does God hate us?
You are visiting your partner at the their place of work, which happens to be a lab, with your newborn baby and an accident happens and a fire breaks out. ^/s^
I believe I would save the baby simply because I can emotionally relate to it and not a flask with some frozen content.
Home?
I mean, it does house all my code experiments, so I guess it's a lab. The sort filled with abominations begging to be relieved. "Delete me!" I can sometimes hear them cry if I open
~/Projectsand linger a little too long.If she carries a baby to term, there have been at least two accidents already, what's one more?
Though I'd probably be saving her instead. Odds are the baby could crawl faster than her after pregnancy is done with her.
Shame about my PC though. I've got all the important stuff backed up, but there's a few code projects I've been meaning to get back to some time...
Yeah, I think that's on the mark. I can't in all honesty say I'd stand there rationally weighing the ethics of the situation and morality of the choices. The baby feels "more human" than the jar. It also probably has better chances of surviving the lack of refrigeration.