The 1995 Maternal and Infant Health Care Law is a Chinese law that bans marriages between couples "with certain genetic diseases of a serious nature" unless they agree to sterilization or long-term contraception. The law also requires doctors to "advise" parents to abort if an abnormality is detected in the fetus. The state justifies this law as a measure to "shed some of the economic burden" of caring for disabled people. This justification is based on which metaethical theory?
A. Kantian deontology
B. care ethics
C. utilitarianism
D. Buddhist ethics
Answer: C
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a. true b. false
Lewis's Pained Madman thought experiment is intended to show that
A. it's possible to be in a mental state without being in any particular functional state. B. identity theory is a better theory than functionalism. C. functionalism is TRUE. D. it's not possible to be in a mental state without being in a particular functional state.
George had a religious experience that changed his life. He now accepts the Bible literally and has acknowledged Jesus as his personal savior. George now belongs to a subculture known as ________.
A) Born-Again Christians
B) the Ahmadis
C) religious generalists
D) unifiers
Who challenged Locke's copy theory of truth by pointing out that the so-called objects Locke thought ideas correspond to lacked any fixed nature?
A) Descartes B) Russell C) Hume D) Berkeley