Chapter 3 Self Quiz

. A theory of moral status based on which of the following criteria identifies a sufficient but not necessary condition of moral status?

. Which theory of moral status provides neither a necessary nor sufficient condition for moral status?

. The theory of moral status based on relationships does all of the following, except:

. Which of the following is NOT identified as a problem that a unified and comprehensive account of moral status would have to address?

. Incorporating theories of moral status into practical guidelines should involve:

. Today's most influential theory of "moral agency" was originally developed by:

. Beauchamp and Childress suggest that the moral status of sentient laboratory animals is most reasonably grounded in obligations related to:

. Expansive sympathy helps contribute to:

. Which criteria are most likely to warrant ascribing a greater degree of moral status to any given chimpanzee than to any given pig?

. According to the human properties theory of moral status, fetuses, children, and incompetent individuals have exactly the same moral status as that of surrogate decision makers.

. The categories of "human dignity," "personhood," and "human life" are determinative for specifying what properties confer moral status.

. It is appropriate to identify some beings as possessing full moral status while viewing others as having partial moral status and still others as having no moral status.

. All persons with less than full moral status require a surrogate decision maker to determine their true interests.

. A brain-dead human being can have no moral status.

. The work of specifying and balancing norms of moral status generates guidelines for biomedical research and medical practice.

. The moral character traits of sympathy and impartiality play an important role in promoting and upholding obligations owed to persons who are less proximate relationally and geographically.

. Due to their increased vulnerability, individuals with compromised competence should not be allowed to participate in medical research that includes risk of harms.

. Among the great strengths of a theory of moral status based on ____ properties is that it tends to protect weak, vulnerable, and incapacitated human individuals.

. The account of moral theory based on _____ properties holds that an individual has moral status if and only if that individual has the genetic code of Homo sapiens.

. According to this theory of moral status, just because an individual makes immoral judgments or has immoral motives does not mean that the person lacks _____ _____.

. "The argument from marginal cases" maintains that every major _____ criterion of moral status (intelligence, agency, self-consciousness, etc.) excludes some humans, including young children and humans with serious brain damage.

. Practices of abortion where fetuses are capable of _____ raise issues of moral coherence.

. One way to overcome the limited sympathy one might feel for persons different from oneself is the deliberate exercise of _____ through calm and unbiased judgments.

. One way to make moral status practicable for bioethics is to develop _____ that specify the relationship between the criteria in the various theories of moral status.

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