Throw the baby in the opposite direction to the one you’re headed in.
It’s pretty hard to head in any particular direction while hiding at the same time, and it doesn’t take very unrealistic premises to suppose that throwing a baby will give away your cover.
Reading the quote in the parent prior to seeing the context made me think (or at least hope) that the subject was on the moral implications of a form of propulsion when stranded in a vacuum. (Looking at the context it turns out that obvious scenarios could be easily constructed such that the consequentialist implications were equivalent.)
It’s pretty hard to head in any particular direction while hiding at the same time, and it doesn’t take very unrealistic premises to suppose that throwing a baby will give away your cover.
Reading the quote in the parent prior to seeing the context made me think (or at least hope) that the subject was on the moral implications of a form of propulsion when stranded in a vacuum. (Looking at the context it turns out that obvious scenarios could be easily constructed such that the consequentialist implications were equivalent.)