Sometimes I lay in bed at night (especially when my husband works the nightshift) and I think about my three kids, in two separate bedrooms, and wonder "if a fire broke out in my house, who would I run to first" and such things. Of course I come up with a scenario in which I magically save ALL the kids.
As for your dilemma, I know most would likely save the woman and her two children as opposed to the pregnant woman. I often wonder why the pro-choice people don't count a baby as a "baby" until it's out of its mother.
I would also prevent #2. As for why, it's that so many more people are going to be affected by the deaths of the two children (their own friends, their teachers, teammates, extended family, etc.) whereas with the pregnant woman the person most affected by the deaths of the twins would be the woman herself (who in this scenario also dies) and the twins' father (who in this scenario would probably be more upset about her death than the loss of the unborn twins).
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Having to choose, I'll prevent #2, since they're already in the world.
Sometimes I lay in bed at night (especially when my husband works the nightshift) and I think about my three kids, in two separate bedrooms, and wonder "if a fire broke out in my house, who would I run to first" and such things. Of course I come up with a scenario in which I magically save ALL the kids.
As for your dilemma, I know most would likely save the woman and her two children as opposed to the pregnant woman. I often wonder why the pro-choice people don't count a baby as a "baby" until it's out of its mother.
I would also prevent #2. As for why, it's that so many more people are going to be affected by the deaths of the two children (their own friends, their teachers, teammates, extended family, etc.) whereas with the pregnant woman the person most affected by the deaths of the twins would be the woman herself (who in this scenario also dies) and the twins' father (who in this scenario would probably be more upset about her death than the loss of the unborn twins).
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