W3 Quiz - What Future Generations Will Condemn Us For

Question 1

What are Appiah’s 3 indicators that a practice will later be condemned?

Answer 1

1) There are already arguments against the practice
2) Defenders of the practice tend not to offer moral counter arguments
3) Supporters of the practice engage in strategic ignorance

Question 2

What is concerning about the U.S. prison system according to Appiah?

Answer 2

• Prisoners suffer sexual abuse
• Prisoners are held in isolation (border torture)
• It imprisons many people

Question 3

Appiah points out that more than half the prisoners in the United States are what?

Answer 3

Non-violent offenders.

Question 4

According to Appiah, what argument do defenders of the U.S. prison system cite in its defense?

Answer 4

The administrative difficulty of reform.

Question 5

Jeremy Bentham famously maintained that, when it comes to our treatment of animals, the key question is what?

Answer 5

Not if the animals can reason but if they are capable of suffering.

Question 6

According to Appiah, people who eat factory-farmed food typically do what?

Answer 6

Try not to think about too much about what they’re doing.

Question 7

What problematic features of feedlots does Appiah cite?

Answer 7

• Over crowding
• Antibiotic use
• Accumulation of animal waste

Question 8

As of Appiah’s writing, how many elderly people in the United States are housed in nursing homes?

Answer 8

2 million

Question 9

What are Appiah’s concerns in regards to the treatment of the elderly?

Answer 9

• Lack of independence
• Increased isolation
• Preventable death

Question 10

What does Appiah cite as the main problem for keeping aging parents closer to their children?

Answer 10

Jobs outside the home.

Question 11

A “transgenerational obligation” is an obligation…

Answer 11

that one generation has to another.

Question 12

What problematic environmental practices does Appiah cite?

Answer 12

• Overfishing
• Wetland Destruction
• Deforestation

Question 13

How much of earths surface is threatened by desertification?

Answer 13

One-third

Question 14

Rather than arguing in moral terms, defenders of the practices Appiah discusses appeal to what instead?

Answer 14

Tradition and Human Nature

Question 15

What are Appiah’s examples of of immoral practices that were previously condoned by society?

Answer 15

• Slavery
• Punishing Homosexuality
• Barring Woman From Voting