The best pro choice debate strategy you will win every time.

[TlalocW]

40. I've thought of this argument a while ago, and I never used it but then...

I read an article about a guy who uses it as well, and he gets "good" reactions to it.

Basically, you give the following situation. You are in a burning room in a burning building. Don't worry about how, but there is one child in one corner and six children in another corner. You cannot save all of them - you can either save the one child with 100% certainty but also 100% certainty that the six children will die. Or you can save the six children with 100% certainty but the one child will die with 100% certainty. There is no, "Well, if I did this..." hypotheticals. Death for one child, life for six or death for six children, life for one. You don't know any of the children. Who do you save?

Once you get them past their hemming and hawing, they'll say the 6 children.

Ask about the same situation but for five children then four children, then three children, then two children. They will say the multiple children.

Back to the first situation. One child in one corner you can save, six in the other corner. But the six "children" are fertilized eggs in a handy carrying-case that will protect them. And throw in, and you know that not only will the zygotes survive, they will all be implanted in women who will then successfully give birth to healthy children.

Who do you save?

If they say the six zygotes, they are at least weirdly consistent. More than likely, they'll start hemming and hawing again, and at that point, you don't even need for them to say anything. Something else is making them re-think their answer. Ask them what it is. Chances are they won't have a good answer or won't want to give one.

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