It's 500 years from now, and we now have the technology to remove a fertilized egg from a woman and grow it into a human in the lab. Yay science!
You have in your hands a fertilized egg. It's an egg donated by a woman who did not want her child (she was raped), and who doesn't have a loving family waiting for them if they're born. A mad man comes in holding a 3 month old child. He says "Crush that egg by the time I get to 5, or I'm going to bash this baby's brains in." You have no other recourse of options. You can't reach him by the time he gets to 5--you're sure he'd bash the 3 month old's brians in before you got to him in any case.
What do you do? Do you let him smash the baby's brain? Or do you smash the egg? How long do you have to think about it?
You have in your hands a fertilized egg. It's an egg donated by a woman who did not want her child (she was raped), and who doesn't have a loving family waiting for them if they're born. A mad man comes in holding a 3 month old child. He says "Crush that egg by the time I get to 5, or I'm going to bash this baby's brains in." You have no other recourse of options. You can't reach him by the time he gets to 5--you're sure he'd bash the 3 month old's brians in before you got to him in any case.
What do you do? Do you let him smash the baby's brain? Or do you smash the egg? How long do you have to think about it?