Argument from Self Interest
What will be an ideal response?
1. Acts of euthanasia contain the possibility that we will work against our own interests.
2. If (1), then acts of euthanasia are morally wrong.
3. Therefore, acts of euthanasia are morally wrong.
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(a) The enclosed words are Jillian's interpretive comments. (b) The enclosed words indicate that a decision needs to be made. (c) The enclosed words are good ideas that the co-worker failed to include. (d) Those enclosed words clarify what the co-worker meant. (e) Those enclosed words indicate where Jillian disagreed with the point her co-worker was making.
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A) No fallacy. B) Equivocation. C) Weak analogy. D) Appeal to ignorance. E) False cause.
Nathanson, in opposition to Berns, views the moral order and the legal order as
a. identical. b. symmetrical: not an exact match, but similar in shape and structure. c. as growing out of the same basic religious foundation. d. distinctly different. e. as being two different perspectives on the same social contract principles.
The laws of Newtonian physics, we now believe, hold:
a. everywhere b. in the world of the fairly large and fairly slow c. in the world of the very small and very fast d. nowhere