P4

Question 1

What is the international community’s stance on capital punishment?

Answer 1

The United Nations have an abolitionist position on capital punishment

Question 2

What are the two major arguments for capital punishment?

Answer 2

1. Argument of deterrence - Capital punishment is moral because it is a deterrent of brutal crimes.
2. Argument of retribution - Capital punishment is moral because capital punishment is equal treatment for those who commit brutal crimes.

Question 3

What are the weaknesses of each argument?

Answer 3

Argument of deterrence - it states a false sociological claim, it says that the more people are excited then crime rates go down, a negative correlation

Argument of retribution - equality is not always possible. if someone kills 5 people, you can’t kill that person 5 times.

Question 4

What is the judeo-christian conception of members of other species?

Answer 4

Members of other species were put on this earth for our use

Question 5

What are 5 major uses of members of other species?

Answer 5

food
2. clothing
3. entertainment
4. companionship
5. animal experimentations

Question 6

What is bias?

Answer 6

Preconceived notion, prejudice

Question 7

What is discrimination?

Answer 7

Acting upon bias

Question 8

What are 5 modern day practices towards animals that are being reared for consumption?

Answer 8

1. overcrowding
2. debeaking
3. tail docking (pigs)
4. putting them on unnatural surfaces
5. Fed things to achieve unnatural growths

Question 9

What is the most intelligent animal eaten in the western world?

Answer 9

Pig

Question 10

What is speciesism? The

Answer 10

bias on the basis of species

Question 11

What is Peter Singer’s argument from unnecessary suffering

Answer 11

Any action that produces suffering which is unnecessary is immoral

Question 12

What is the argument from medical necessity?

Answer 12

Experimentation is necessary in order to obtain further medical knowledge

Question 13

What is the Draize experiment?

Answer 13

it immobilizes a rabbit, put chemical in its eye to test the irritancy of the chemicals, it generally destroys the features of the rabbits’ eyes

Question 14

What does the use of language tell us about are disposition towards members of other species?

Answer 14

Theres a transition of an animal becoming a product (commodity). It is liberate, commoditization

Question 15

What is war?

Answer 15

Armed conflict between nations or parties within nations.

Question 16

What are some of the major conflicts in human history?

Answer 16

World War 1 and 2, Vietnam war, Cold War, Korean War, American Revolutionary War

Question 17

What is just war theory?

Answer 17

An attempt to justify acts of war, trying to say that it is morally good. 1. right reason to going to war -> defense 2. Right conduct once your at war

Question 18

What is generally considered to constitute proper conduct in war?

Answer 18

No harming noncombatants, no targeting of properties not associated with the war, end war asap. people that are captured are supposed to be returned unharmed at the end of the war, no torture or genocide, right of proportionality.

Question 19

Have civilian casualties often outnumbered those of actual combatants?

Answer 19

yes, in many cases

Question 20

What is wrongful execution?

Answer 20

Terminating someone’s life who is innocent of their accusation