"In the never going to happen scenario I would n't pick because I would n't pick between two 30yr olds sitting there . You could say `` if you have your mother ( assume you love your mother ) on one table and a random person on the other table which would you choose to kill or both die `` ... if you picked your mother to live does that mean the other person is less of a human worthy of rights ? Spare me the ridicious scenarios ."
"Cthulhu may go too far in his/her assumptions about the indecision of pro-life people , but his scenario does bring up an interesting challenge . I 'm sure that it was never meant to be presented as a realistic scenario - that was not the point . The point was to try to make pro-life people admit that the baby is more worthy of consideration than the newly fertilized zygote . Your example of choosing between ones mother and a stranger is equally unrealistic for most of us but does not address the same type of question ( the question in that case being how much worth one places on personal connections in deciding the worth of a person ) . There are occasional situations in life where one is faced with choosing between two awful choices and one can only choose the lesser of two evils . Those type of situations can be quite interesting since they reveal to us our priorities and details of our moral reasoning . I remember being comfronted with the too-many-people-on-a-lifeboat scenario ( so how does one decide who lives and dies ) during comfirmation years back - again to force us to explore our moral reasoning . Cthulhu 's scenario may be an unrealistic one but would force someone who is pro-life to consider the relative worth of the baby vs zygote . It may be a very uncomfortable question ( all of the lesser-of-two-evils questions are ) but can be quite revealing . Given that introduction , if you or other pro-life people were faced with that awful choice , would you : 1 ) Consider both so exactly equally worthy that you would indeed be frozen in indecision , or possibly decide based on chance ( a flip of a coin ) 2 ) Choose one over the other based on moral considerations Note : I believe it would be obvious to almost everyone that your choosing one over the other does not mean that you condone the killing of that other . It would be just a choice of the lesser of two evils , where it is acknowledged that both choices , in your view , would be evil ."
"if you picked your mother to live does that mean the other person is less of a human worthy of rights ?"
"It would be just a choice of the lesser of two evils ,"