Deck 19: Appendix A: The Tools of Ethical Inquiry

Question 1

Normative judgments include

A) Prescriptions
B) Evaluations
C) Both A and B

Answer 1

C

Question 2

"Punishing people for crimes they have committed increases happiness in the world" is

A) Normative
B) Non-normative

Answer 2

B

Question 3

"Punishing people for crimes they have committed is always morally right" is

A) Normative
B) Non-normative

Answer 3

B

Question 4

"Killing animals for food is wrong" is

A) A moral judgment
B) A prudential judgment
C) A legal judgment

Question 5

Which of the following is a moral judgment?

A) The Nuremberg Laws allowed the Nazis to legally persecute German Jews
B) Junk food is bad for one's health
C) Overthrowing the 'Jim Crow' laws sanctioning racial discrimination in the American South was a good thing

Question 6

A moral principle is

A) A particular judgment of moral obligation or value
B) A general judgment of moral obligation or value
C) A judgment of prudential obligation or value

Question 7

The judgment "In abortion, the fetus is killed" is

A) Moral
B) Non-normative
C) Prudential

Question 8

The judgment "Some allege that there is a connection between vaccines and autism"

A) Has normative force
B) Is purely descriptive
C) Neither A nor B

Question 9

The judgment "Appeals to freedom from vaccination are legitimate"

A) Has normative force
B) Is purely descriptive
C) Neither A nor B

Question 10

A prescription is a judgment

A) Ascribing some positive, negative, or neutral value to a thing
B) Sanctioning an action to be right, wrong, or permissible
C) Doing both of the above

Question 11

The missing premise in the argument "If the fetus is a person, then it has a right to life. Therefore, the fetus has a right to life" is

A) Abortion is always wrong
B) The fetus is a person
C) The fetus should not be killed

Question 12

The missing premise in the argument "Mayor Mufkin will not confront the governor and his powerful friends. Therefore, Mayor Mufkin is a spineless coward" is

A) Mayor Mufkin avoids confrontations with the governor and his powerful friend
B) The governor and his friends are powerful people
C) If Mayor Mufkin fails to confront the governor and his powerful friend, he is a spineless coward

Question 13

The judgment "The new reproductive technologies are the products of many years' research" is

A) A normative judgment
B) A moral judgement
C) Both A and B
D) Neither A nor B

Question 14

The judgment "Patients have a right to refuse treatment" is

A) A normative judgment
B) A moral judgement
C) Both A and B
D) Neither A nor B

Question 15

The judgment "The allocation of scarce medical resources should take into account costs" is

A) A normative judgment
B) A moral judgement
C) Both A and B
D) Neither A nor B

Question 16

Give an example of a factual judgment and use that judgment as a premise in a moral argument.

Question 17

Appendix A of Engaging Bioethics draws a distinction between prescriptions and valuations. What is that distinction? Provide some examples that illustrate that distinction and discuss their normative force.

Question 18

What does it mean to say that a judgment is 'normative'? And how does a moral judgment differ from other normative judgments?

Question 19

What are moral norms? How do they differ from legal norms?