Most of us might choose to save the toddler over the embryos, because there are other relevant facts that are assumed, but not explicitly stated, about this case. For example, we may choose to save the two-year-old because we consider it worse for the toddler to painfully die in the fire than it would be for the five embryos to die painlessly. Or we might choose to save the toddler instead of the embryos because we know that frozen embryos have a poor chance of developing into adults. They might never be implanted, be killed in the de-thawing process, fail to implant, be naturally miscarried,
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