What are the benefits enjoyed by a society that promotes and teaches critical thinking?

What will be an ideal response


The benefit of promoting and teaching critical thinking is great progress in learning, wealth, and culture, and hence huge benefits for society. Problem solvers using critical thinking have achieved massive breakthroughs in science, technology, engineering, commerce, and the arts.

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Consequentialism

a. is best represented by Ross's theory of ethics. b. states that sometimes the consequences of our actions can be morally relevant. c. states that the moral rightness of an action is determined solely by its results. d. differs from nonconsequentialism because nonconsequentialism denies that consequences have any moral significance.

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Voters in Dade County, Florida, are opposed to a bill introduced in the U. S. Senate that will

relax the trade embargo with Cuba. In a Miami Herald telephone survey of 1150 randomly selected registered voters throughout Dade County, over 75% of respondents said they were opposed to any bill that would change the Cuban trade embargo

What will be an ideal response?

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We already admit that the rule to not kill other people has exceptions. If, then, we encounter a band of cannibals that has long practiced the custom of killing and eating the weakest among them, then

A) ?we should probably repeal our own rule proscribing killing. B) ?we should endorse their actions as justifiable exceptions. C) ?we can condemn their actions because we believe that killing is always wrong. D) ?we can't condemn their actions because we believe that killing is always wrong.

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In 1996, Sikh authorities issued a declaration that women should be allowed to read publicly from the Guru Granth Sahib

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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