Identify the moral perspective at work here:Taffy is a university lab chimpanzee; the university has lost its animal research grant and has to decide what to do with Taffy.Only human greed and insensitivity have put Taffy in her present situation. We can hope that by learning about Taffy, people will become more sensitive toward other creatures.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).


Virtue ethics.

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Summarize the three steps through which the state of Israel came into being.

What will be an ideal response?

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Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

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Because philosophic thinking requires that we question our beliefs, it cannot provide reasons why one set of beliefs should be preferred over another.

a. true b. false

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