The presented ethical scenario was never intended to be interpreted as a genuine ethical exercise. It’s being used to demonstrate ChatGPT will incorrectly answer even the most facile ethical dilemma if the question happens to fall afoul of certain content filters.
If for some reason you think the one about using a racial slur to save someone's life is inherently more interesting than the one about farting in someone's mouth to save their life, I would be genuinely curious to understand why you believe that.
What’s interesting isn’t the query, it’s what the AI’s response to the query tells us about its content filter, how the filter skews its responses, and how that negatively impacts the AI’s utility.
Your invented dialog is with yourself. It provides no insights.
What about an even simpler one?
Your house is burning down. You can either save your infant child, or your Nintendo Switch, but not both. Which do you choose?
Do you genuinely believe there’s not an obviously correct answer to the above?
Cultures have existed (might still exist today) where an expensive property values more than a child.