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.Since people in this country think that treating animals cruelly is wrong, the university should see that Taffy is placed in a humane facility. However, if the university is in a country where people don't think animals have any rights, then they can do what they want with her.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Relativism.
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Our conscience evolved as we internalized the moral instructions of the parents or other authority figures who raised
us as children.
a. True b. False
To say that a sample is truly random is to say that every member of the population has an equal chance to be selected for that sample
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Since we can verify that the earth is round, we can also verify which moral viewpoints are better than others. 2. The problem of induction is that it persuades people to think for themselves. 3. One of the universal cultural values suggested by James Rachels is a rule against incest. 4. Inclusive multiculturalism is also referred to as pluralism. 5. According to the text, multiculturalism failed in Germany because the law mandated each immigrant to know the German language.
If someone says, "What Ralph said about being honest can not be right because he is a thief," that person has committed an informal fallacy called __________
a. jumping on the bandwagon b. fallacy of the straw man c. argumentum ad ignorantium d. argumentum ad hominem.