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You genuinely don’t know the correct answer to such a facile dilemma?

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?

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it is an obvious answer that a child is more valuable, but we have been told literally just that our whole lives, that children are the most valuable and important.

Cultures have existed (might still exist today) where an expensive property values more than a child.

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