If there was a pet in a burning house, and a human embryo in a petri dish, which would you save?? I would automatically run in and save the pet. A radio talk show host who is completely pro-life regardless of the situation, said he would run in and save the embryo, and leave the pet to die. What would you do?
A Pet and an Embryo in a Petri Dish Were in A Burning House, Which Would You Save?
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Warrigal
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A silly hypothetical. Depending on the ferocity of the fire, I might not try to save either.
Warrigal
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If you can get in safely, why not take both?
rkunsaw
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I'd save the pet. I think Dame is wanting an argument :lol:
Warrigal
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Not so. I've had experience of these hypothetical questions when teaching teenagers.
The whole idea is to get people to examine their values.
There is no right or wrong answer.
After a while they get rather tedious.
If you really think about it, the pet should be saved because the embryo is cryogenically stored in the fertility clinic.
Who keeps their embryo in the home freezer?
The whole idea is to get people to examine their values.
There is no right or wrong answer.
After a while they get rather tedious.
If you really think about it, the pet should be saved because the embryo is cryogenically stored in the fertility clinic.
Who keeps their embryo in the home freezer?
Falcon
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The pet.
Davey Jones
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A burning house is the firemen responsibility anyone other then the firemen that runs into one is a total idiot plus it puts the fireman lives at risk trying to get YOU out.
I would tell the fireman "their is a animal in there" and let him make the decision to get it or not.
I would tell the fireman "their is a animal in there" and let him make the decision to get it or not.
Davey Jones
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If you really think about it said:You didnt say this dish was in the freezer,I though it was on the floor alongside the pets drinking water dish.
MrJim
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I think a better way to have worded the question would have been to eliminate the burning house aspect & just ask... "If you were given the choice of saving the life of either a pet or a human embryo, which would you save?"
Takes a lot of the technicality aspects out of the possible answer.
Of course, it might still depend on who the pet & the embryo belonged to. Were they both yours? Was one yours & the other some stranger's? Or even some enemy's?
I'd save the pet. Unless it was one of those weird pets, like a snake or a big spider.
Too many variables to give just one all encompassing answer.
Takes a lot of the technicality aspects out of the possible answer.
Of course, it might still depend on who the pet & the embryo belonged to. Were they both yours? Was one yours & the other some stranger's? Or even some enemy's?
I'd save the pet. Unless it was one of those weird pets, like a snake or a big spider.
Too many variables to give just one all encompassing answer.
MrJim
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You didnt say this dish was in the freezer,I though it was on the floor alongside the pets drinking water dish.
Actually, if it was a growing, developing embryo, it would probably be in an incubator, wouldn't it?
Either way, if a fire engulfed the house or building it was in, the fire would kill the electrical power that ran the freezer, which would of course, cause the embryo to thaw out & die.
Falcon
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The entire thing is a moral issue without all the minutia regarding the environment.