If your state has the death penalty (or a neighboring state if your state does not),
research reliable sources to determine if your governor has ever commuted a death
sentence. What justification was provided?
What will be an ideal response?
Did rehabilitation play any role in the
governor's reasoning? From the information you have gathered, did the commutation
seem ethically justified?
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Who is being quoted in this passage? "Benefits and burdens are distributed justly when society allows every
individual the freedom to do what he chooses to do for himself or for others, the freedom to keep what he makes for himself or what others choose to give him, and the freedom to keep what he has or give it to whomever he chooses."
a. John Rawls b. Karl Marx c. John Stuart Mill d. Robert Nozick
The strengths of Bentham's _____ are it effectively measures many of the consequences of an action and it does not prejudge the question of the morality of an action
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Consider the following critiques: (1) the empirical fact of diversity does not logically entail that there is no objective moral truth; (2) history shows that what some societies believed was good for them led to their demise; and (3) if believing something is an insufficient ground for assuring a truth, it would seem an insufficient ground for asserting a value. These are critiques of
a. utilitarianism. b. situationism. c. subjectivism. d. cultural relativism.
Internalism and externalism differ over whether or not
a. truth is a necessary condition for knowledge. b. we must be able to justify a belief for it to be knowledge. c. it is possible to have knowledge at all. d. knowledge requires internal or external justification.