Ethics Questions

Ethics Questions

QUESTION 1

1. Foer is asking people to:

	a. Defend the rights of animals
	b. All of these
	c. Stop eating meat
	d. Stop buying factory-farmed meat

QUESTION 2

1. Regan is against

a. All of these

b. Eating animals

c. Hunting animals

d. Experimenting on animals

QUESTION 3

1. Cohen is against

	a.	Experimenting on animals
	b.	Eating animals
	c.	Neglecting your pets
	d.	None of these

QUESTION 4

1. Regan thinks animals have rights because

	a.	They are capable of caring for their young
	b.	They are subjects of a life—what happens to them matters to them
	c.	They have reason and emotion
	d.	They can suffer and enjoy life

QUESTION 5

1. Speciesists defend their position by pointing to a relevant difference between species. According to Cohen, the relevant difference between humans and other animals is that humans:

	a.	Have reason
	b.	Care for each other
	c.	Experience pain
	d.	Are part of a moral community

QUESTION 6

1. Michael Pollan:

	a.	Calls for alternatives to factory farmed meat
	b.	None of these
	c.	Defends the rights of animals
	d.	Defends speciesism

QUESTION 7

1. Cohen thinks animals don’t have rights because

	a.	They are not capable of forming meaningful societies
	b.	They are not part of the community of reasonable beings
	c.	They are not part of the community of morally capable beings
	d.	Their suffering cannot be compared to human suffering

 

QUESTION 8

1. Cohen’s speciesism favors:

	a.	Some more advanced forms within a species
	b.	Human animals over nonhuman animals
	c.	The strongest species
	d.	All of these

QUESTION 9

1. Kant thinks we have no direct duties to nonhuman animals

True

False

QUESTION 10

1. Kant believes that

	a.	Harming an animal for no reason is not OK because it harms us
	b.	Harming an animal is OK sometimes even though they are not our instruments
	c.	Harming an animal for no reason is OK because they are our instruments
	d.	Harming an animal for no reason is not OK because it harms the animal

QUESTION 11

1. Kant believes (and is concerned) that people who harm animals for no reason

	a.	Harm the soul of the animal and the animal will be less likely to be good to people.
	b.	Harm the soul of the person doing the harm and the person will be less likely to be good to people
	c.	Both of these
	d.	Neither of these

QUESTION 12

1. Cohen’s speciesism, combined with his other views, commits him to saying:

	a.	We should experiment on animals to advance humankind.
	b.	We may experiment on humans when animals aren’t useful.
	c.	We should never experiment on animals if it involves suffering.
	d.	We may experiment on animals to advance humankind.

 

QUESTION 13

1. Cohen thinks being part of a moral community involves

	a.	Having a free will
	b.	Having a moral free will
	c.	Being able to do good things
	d.	Making decisions

QUESTION 14

1. Singer’s utilitarianism commits him to the following position with respect to animals and people:

	a.	We can justify eating factory-farmed meat; although the animal suffers, animal suffering is significantly different from human suffering and, so, isn’t counted equally.
	b.	We can justify factory farming when the animals we are talking about are not mammals and, so, are lower animals.
	c.	We cannot justify eating factory-farmed meat because the suffering of the meat animal outweighs the pleasure for the person eating it.
	d.	We cannot justify eating factory-farmed meat because animals have the right to life.

QUESTION 15

1. Kant thinks we have a direct duty to

	a.	People only
	b.	Animals and people
	c.	All sentient beings
	d.	Animals with higher intelligence and people

QUESTION 16

1. Kant thinks it’s OK to experiment on animals to advance medicin

True

False

QUESTION 17

1. Singer thinks

	a.	Animals interests should be counted because they can suffer and enjoy life
	b.	Animals interests should be counted because they are part of a community of beings who can reason.
	c.	None of these
	d.	Animals have rights because they can suffer and enjoy life

 

 

QUESTION 18

1. Kant thinks that

	a.	As with people, animals have intrinsic value but sometimes we may use them as our instruments
	b.	Animals have value and we shouldn’t view them as our instruments
	c.	Animals may sometimes be used as instruments, depending on whether the animal in question feels pain
	d.	Animals are our instruments

 

 

 

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QUESTION 1

1. Foer is asking people to:

b. All of these

QUESTION 2

1. Regan is against

a. All of these

QUESTION 3

1. Cohen is against

c.

Neglecting your pets

QUESTION 4

1. Regan thinks animals have rights because

b.

They are subjects of a life—what happens to them matters to them

 

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