You and your visually-impaired mother, whom you love dearly, are attending a lecture by a scientist who is conducting groundbreaking research on a vaccine for AIDS when a fire breaks out in the lecture hall. A beam falls, trapping your mother, her seeing eye dog, and the scientist. You have time to save only one of them. A care ethicist would most likely advise you to:
A. save your mother; your relationship with her creates a special obligation to her.
B. save the dog; to give preferential treatment to humans in this case is speciesist.
C. save the scientist; she is more likely to benefit society through her research.
D. apply the doctrine of the mean and take each of them partway out of the building.
Answer: A
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According to West, the quest for black identity requires
A) a college education for everyone. B) self-respect and self-regard. C) religious belief. D) monetary compensation for slavery.
Which of the following is used to reduce, but not eliminate, responsibility for a wrong?
a. Causality b. Freedom of choice c. Mitigating factors d. Knowledge
When it comes to the "Other," Levinas believes
a. we are responsible to the Other. b. we have no responsibility to the Other. c. we should think of ourselves first, and the Other second. d. our prime obligation is to ourselves.
Fisher Price should recall the one million character toys they manufactured in 2007, including
Sesame Street and Dora the Explorer, because the surface paint on the toys may contain excessive amounts of lead.
What will be an ideal response?