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Ok, Ok, just reread the thread.
Popa, you mean that if both women yelled don’t chop it means that its not possible that a switch occurred, rather the one who lost her baby is just bitter and confused, and honestly thinks the live baby might be hers.
Now what if the babies were switched. And the switcher wants a live baby very badly (that is why she did such a deed). But standing in that courtroom before the king who decides the live baby must be chopped, she realizes the game has gone too far, and she doesn’t want a baby to die at her expense. After all her goal was to care for and raise a Jewish neshama, however misguided her method of acquiring a new one was; her goal initially was not to kill another women’s baby.
So I think it is very plausible to assume that even if she was so pained that she was driven to switch the babies, she might have been too compassionate to just allow a child to die. Even if she knew it wasn’t her own.
So now both the real mother and the switcher yell don’t chop! What happens now? She confesses? But she wants that live baby!
So Popa, it is possible that both women would yell don’t chop, even if the switch occurred. You have to consider all cases.