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Yes, it is a trick question
...because it makes a lot of assumptions, the chief of which is that no one has an emotional response to a child crying.
Other assumptions:
That people think rationally in emergencies.
That blastulas can live outside a rigidly controlled environment, or that you could get them into the required environment once outside the burning building.
I'm sure you could come up with more if you think about it.
The *real* problem is, that this sort of thing - and both sides do it - undercuts what we really need, and that is a clear, open and *respectful* debate. Increased polarization only makes matters worse. and worse. and worse.
I don't care *who* started it. Stop it right now.