Every state:
A. uses force to obtain obedience to its commands.
B. forbids its citizens from breaking the social contract.
C. must keep a standing army.
D. requires some sort of explicit consent to the social contract.
E. All of the above
Answer: A
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a. India b. China c. Japan d. all of the above
Employers have the right to fire an employee who performs inadequately, but they should do so
A) as painlessly as possible. B) with vengeance. C) in a public display so all can learn. D) in humiliation.
For Popper, science can be distinguished from pseudo-science:
A. only by recognized practitioners of science. B. because the former is falsifiable. C. because the latter has been proven false. D. because all swans are white. E. because the former fails to make predictions.
Identify a common critique of divine command theory.
A. It is irrelevant because the number of people with irreligious or atheistic beliefs far outnumber the number of religious people in the world. B. It is not a valid theory because religious scriptures do not specify that God commanded everyone to live a morally just life. C. It is problematic because there are no independent criteria to determine if someone's actions were actually commanded by God. D. It is self-contradictory in that it identifies morality as independent of God's will and yet expects people to follow God's commands unquestioningly.