Do you believe the court’s decision was the correct one?
What will be an ideal response?
Use ethical reasoning to
support your conclusion.
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Before a person brings a gift to the altar they should
A. Estimate the value B. Announce what they are doing C. Be reconciled with a brother D. Be in deep meditation
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.
Johnson is hired by a company to see if a new product, Topocal, will cause hair to grow on the heads of bald men. He recruits one thousand bald men and randomly divides them into two groups: Five hundred men (group A) rub Topocal on their scalps each day; the other five hundred (group B) rub a standard skin lotion on their scalps each day. After two months, Johnson checks to see what the results have been. He finds that there has been hair growth in 7 percent of group A and in 2 percent of group B.What is the population?
A. bald men in general B. the men in group B C. the men in group A D. the bald men who participated in the study
According to Kierkegaard, the hardest task in life is to
a. be objective. b. let go and enjoy ourselves. c. find a career that is fulfilling. d. become subjective.