Lesson test: Who counts

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Who counts

1.[2p]
What is the difference between a moral agent and a moral patient?

An agent can be held responsible; a patient is a being to whom things can be owed

Correct

An agent acts and a patient suffers

The answer is: An agent can be held responsible; a patient is a being to whom things can be owed

An agent is human and a patient may be an animal

The answer is: An agent can be held responsible; a patient is a being to whom things can be owed

There is no difference outside medicine

The answer is: An agent can be held responsible; a patient is a being to whom things can be owed

2.[3p]
What does the argument from marginal cases establish?

No capacity-based criterion includes every human and excludes every animal, so the standard position needs species membership itself

Correct

That infants have no moral status

The answer is: No capacity-based criterion includes every human and excludes every animal, so the standard position needs species membership itself

That animals have exactly the status of humans

The answer is: No capacity-based criterion includes every human and excludes every animal, so the standard position needs species membership itself

That moral status cannot be discussed

The answer is: No capacity-based criterion includes every human and excludes every animal, so the standard position needs species membership itself

3.[3p]
What does Singer's principle of equal consideration of interests require?

That a like interest counts equally whoever has it, which is compatible with very unequal treatment

Correct

That animals and humans be treated identically

The answer is: That a like interest counts equally whoever has it, which is compatible with very unequal treatment

That every being's life be valued the same

The answer is: That a like interest counts equally whoever has it, which is compatible with very unequal treatment

That interests be measured in the same units

The answer is: That a like interest counts equally whoever has it, which is compatible with very unequal treatment

4.[2p]
Roughly what percentage of the 80 billion land animals slaughtered each year are chickens?

CorrectNot quite: 90

5.[2p]
About how many days does a modern broiler chicken take to reach slaughter weight?

CorrectNot quite: 42

6.[3p]
Match each criterion of moral status to the objection it faces.

Species membership
Rationality
Sentience
Relationships

it leaves anyone outside the community unprotected
it excludes infants and the profoundly impaired
it needs a boundary decision about insects, fish and machines
it is a group property, not anything true of the individual

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Species membership: it is a group property, not anything true of the individual Rationality: it excludes infants and the profoundly impaired Sentience: it needs a boundary decision about insects, fish and machines Relationships: it leaves anyone outside the community unprotected

7.[3p]
What is the pure rate of time preference?

The part of a discount rate that reduces future welfare simply because it is future

Correct

The rate at which invested money grows

The answer is: The part of a discount rate that reduces future welfare simply because it is future

The rate at which future people become richer

The answer is: The part of a discount rate that reduces future welfare simply because it is future

The probability that humanity ceases to exist

The answer is: The part of a discount rate that reduces future welfare simply because it is future

8.[3p]
Under a pure time preference of 1.5 percent, what weight does a benefit 100 years from now carry? Give two decimal places.

CorrectNot quite: 0.23

9.[3p]
What is the non-identity problem?

A policy can make the future worse without harming anyone, because different people exist under each policy

Correct

Future people cannot be identified in advance

The answer is: A policy can make the future worse without harming anyone, because different people exist under each policy

Future people have no interests

The answer is: A policy can make the future worse without harming anyone, because different people exist under each policy

Identical outcomes can be reached by different policies

The answer is: A policy can make the future worse without harming anyone, because different people exist under each policy

1.[2p] What is the difference between a moral agent and a moral patient?

2.[3p] What does the argument from marginal cases establish?

3.[3p] What does Singer's principle of equal consideration of interests require?

4.[2p] Roughly what percentage of the 80 billion land animals slaughtered each year are chickens?

5.[2p] About how many days does a modern broiler chicken take to reach slaughter weight?

6.[3p] Match each criterion of moral status to the objection it faces.

7.[3p] What is the pure rate of time preference?

8.[3p] Under a pure time preference of 1.5 percent, what weight does a benefit 100 years from now carry? Give two decimal places.

9.[3p] What is the non-identity problem?

1.[2p]
What is the difference between a moral agent and a moral patient?

2.[3p]
What does the argument from marginal cases establish?

3.[3p]
What does Singer's principle of equal consideration of interests require?

4.[2p]
Roughly what percentage of the 80 billion land animals slaughtered each year are chickens?

5.[2p]
About how many days does a modern broiler chicken take to reach slaughter weight?

6.[3p]
Match each criterion of moral status to the objection it faces.

7.[3p]
What is the pure rate of time preference?

8.[3p]
Under a pure time preference of 1.5 percent, what weight does a benefit 100 years from now carry? Give two decimal places.

9.[3p]
What is the non-identity problem?