Discuss the suggested list of "absolute duties" in Box 7-3. Do you agree with this list? Would you add other duties to it? Would you exclude some of those suggestions presented?

What will be an ideal response?


Every child deserves to be loved.
Married people should keep their wedding vows.
Parents have a duty to protect their children from harm.
It is always wrong to torment animals.
Cruelty is always wrong.
There is no circumstance in which pedophilia is permissible.

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a. highly ineffective. b. successfully reducing recidivism. c. under question as to their effectiveness. d. more expensive than straight incarceration.

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A. factual impossibility B. genuine legal impossibility C. legal impossibility D. pure legal impossibility

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What will be an ideal response?

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