Multiple Choice Quiz

Timmerman objects to Singer's argument because:

its conclusion is too demanding.

it's unsound.

it's invalid.

all of the above.

The second premise of Singer's argument states:

"If it is in your power to prevent something bad from happening, it is wrong not to do so."

"If you do not donate to aid agencies, you are doing something wrong."

"Suffering and death from lack of food, shelter, and medicine are bad."

"If it is in your power to prevent something bad from happening, without sacrificing anything nearly as important, it is wrong not to do so."

Timmerman disagrees with Singer that:

our obligation to help others is undiminished by the presence of other people in a position to help.

it is morally required to save the child in the "Drowning Child" thought experiment.

commonsense moral intuitions support the requirement to donate all expendable income to aid agencies.

all of the above.

Singer argues that __________ diminishes our obligations to help others.

physical distance.

the presence of other people in an equal position to help.

both a and b.

neither a nor b.

According to Timmerman, an implicit assumption of Singer's "Drowning Child" case is that:

impartial consequentialism is true.

we have no positive duties to others.

it is an anomalous event.

we have only negative duties to others.

According to Timmerman, the "Drowning Children" case is more __________ than Singer's "Drowning Child" case.

realistic.

relevant.

plausible.

all of the above.

Timmerman admits that according to __________ the "Drowning Children" case may support Singer's second premise.

commonsense consequentialism.

Kant's deontology

impartial consequentialism

commonsense intuitions.

In Timmerman's view, donating most of our income to aid agencies is:

morally wrong.

morally required.

neither morally wrong nor morally required.

an ineffective response to global poverty.

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