One of the key problems with the test "What if everyone did that?" is that:
A. It tries to get everyone to do things that are sometimes really wrong.
B. It makes morality depend on how we describe an action, which can lead to contradictory results.
C. It makes morality depend on a person's desires.
D. Since there is really nothing that everyone would do, the test makes everything perfectly moral.
Answer: B. It makes morality depend on how we describe an action, which can lead to contradictory results.
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Unlike John Locke and Ayn Rand, Karl Marx argued that people's rights exist as part of:
A. their membership in a civil society. B. an abstract set of freedoms every individual is born with. C. the articles of natural law. D. the freedoms given to them by God.
Why is the "Garden of Eden" stage of thinking unsustainable?
A. People eventually learn to think critically. B. People realize that authorities may be unreliable and they often disagree with one another C. People realize that they need to clearly state their principles. D. People learn to argue for their point of view.
Singer argues that the view that nonhuman animals have no intrinsic moral
significance is arbitrary and indefensible.
a. True b. False
Criticize the following claim based on the material from Chapter 3 of the text."Who won?"-ABC poll question, after a presidential debate
What will be an ideal response?