A building is burning. You have time to either save a child trapped inside or

a valuable painting which you would then sell, using the money to save 20 children from certain starvation. What should you do and why?

If you don't save the painting the 20 kids are 100% guaranteed to starve to death

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ElwoodBlues · M

Here's a different version of the dilemma:

You're in room in a burning building. In one corner a child is huddling. In the other corner is a deep freeze flask with 100 frozen embryos.

You can only carry one item out to safety. Which is it, the child or the 100 frozen embryos?

TheDeathOfOzymandiaz

@ElwoodBlues The child because it is an actual sentient human being and not a blob of cells.