Phil 3

Front 1

"Moral cannibalsim," according to Hospers, is a belief that one has a moral claim to the productive capacity, time and effort of others

Back 1

TRUE

Front 2

Using a utilitarian analysis, Govier concludes that paermissivism has the best consequences overall, while individualism is unacceptable and puritanism is only tolerable

Back 2

TRUE

Front 3

Rachels agrees with the AMerican Medical Association's policy on euthanasia

Back 3

FALSE

Front 4

According to Van Den Haag, it is important to prove the deterrent value of the death penalty because the argument from justice is weak and indeciisive

Back 4

FALSE

Front 5

According to Foot, letting a child with Down's Syndrome die is not a legitimate case of euthanasia

Back 5

TRUE

Front 6

According to Bedau, the death penalty would have been abolished long ago if it had been applied equally and fairly

Back 6

true

Front 7

according to Nielson, there is no such thing as too much equality

Back 7

false

Front 8

Murray argues that doing away with federal welfare system will benefit all segments of society

Back 8

False

Front 9

According to Beauchamp, if a policy creates injustices it cannot be justifed

Back 9

False

Front 10

According to Wasserstrom, there is no necessary connection between academic merit and deserving to be a member of a student body

Back 10

True

Front 11

According to Van Den Haag, it is easier to change the conditions that incline people to crime than it is to change the cost of committing crime

Back 11

False

Front 12

According to Nielson, there is no such thing as too much equality

Back 12

False

Front 13

According to Bedau, the only way to make sure that a convicted murderer doesn't kill again is to execute them all

Back 13

True

Front 14

Beauchamp acknowledges that preferential treatment on a large scale risks producing economic advantages to individuals who do not deservve them

Back 14

True

Front 15

The most approriate compensation for past discrimination, according to Blackstone, are programs which benefit all disadvanteaged persons, regardless of race or gender

Back 15

True

Front 16

Rachels agrees with the American Medical Association's policy on euthanasia

Back 16

False

Front 17

According to Foot, charity can require an act of euthanasia that justice forbids

Back 17

False

Front 18

According to Hospers, the rights to life, liberty and property were created by govt

Back 18

False

Front 19

According to Wasserstrom, to admit the most qualified students to law school is to admit those who have the best chance to become successful lawyers

Back 19

True

Front 20

Blackstone regards affirmative action programs that rely on goals and targets as revers discrimination

Back 20

False

Front 21

According to Bedau, the death-penalty would have been abolished long ago if it had been applied equally and fairly

Back 21

True

Front 22

Blackstone regards affirmative action programs that rely on goals and targets as reverse discrmination

Back 22

False

Front 23

According to Govier, people work solely due to the desire for money and the Puritan work ethic

Back 23

False

Front 24

According to Neilsen, the satisfaction of people's wants should be limited only when the satisfaction is incompatible with the same treatment for everyone

Back 24

True

Front 25

According to Foot, the term euthanasia should not be used to signify only that a death was quiet and easy

Back 25

False

Front 26

Brandt thinks that a person's desired and expressed wishes to say alive do not have to be taken into consideration because of our prma facie duty

Back 26

False

Front 27

According to Brandt killing is always wrong because it always causes injury

Back 27

False

Front 28

Rachels believes that not giving a baby w/ Downs a life saving surgery is deeming life/death on irrelevant grouns

Back 28

True

Front 29

Foot and Rachels agree that there is moral distinction between active and passive euthanasia

Back 29

False

Front 30

Another way that Hospers states the libertarian thesis is that no one is anyone's master and no one is anyone else's slave

Back 30

True

Front 31

Grovier's idea of social justice is only concerned with the distribution of goods

Back 31

False

Front 32

Nielsen thinks that satisfyin people's wants should only be limited when it interferes with everyone getting the same treatment

Back 32

True

Front 33

Nielsen's principle of egalitarianism applies in conditions of productive abundance

Back 33

True

Front 34

According to Van Den Haag, it is easier to change the conditions that incline people to crime than it is to change the cost of committing crime

Back 34

False

Front 35

According to Van Den Haag, the more severe the punishment, the more proof we need that it deters crime

Back 35

True

Front 36

According to Bedau, the only way to make sure that a convicted murderer doesn't kill again is to execute them all

Back 36

True

Front 37

Although he opposes the death penalty, Bedau believes that society deserves all the crime detterence it can get as a result of inflicting severe punishments

Back 37

False

Front 38

If the death penalty were applied to only the worst of the bad, Bedau says, he might accept it as a form of rough justice

Back 38

True

Front 39

According to Foot letting a child with Down's die is not a legitimate case of euthanasia

Back 39

True

Front 40

According to Bedau, the death penalty would have been abolished long ago if it had been applied equally and fairly

Back 40

True

Front 41

The slogan Murray adopts to explain his position is, "Billions for equal outcome, not one cent for equal opportunity"

Back 41

False

Front 42

According to Hospers, the appropriate function of govt is the protection of human rights, including the right to life, the right to liberty and property

Back 42

True

Front 43

Wasserstrom argues that it is inconsistent to hold both that discrimiation agasint women and racial minorities is wrong and that afffirmative action programs are justifiable

Back 43

False