Chapter 4 Questions

. Mill defends which of the following liberty-limiting principles?

the harm principle

the offense principle

the principle of legal paternalism

the principle of legal moralism

. According to Mill, censoring speech that is possibly true

violates human dignity.

fails a prima facie duty of honesty.

is tantamount to asserting that you are infallible.

is a risk worth taking of the speech is dangerous enough.

. Mill considers which of the following cases?

censoring an opinion that is true.

censoring an opinion that is false.

censoring an opinion that is partly true and partly false.

All of the above.

. Mill worries that viewpoints are likely to become meaningless if they are not

understood in the context of the opposing viewpoint.

enforced paternalistically by the state.

accepting as dogma or doctrine on the part of those who believe them.

none of the above.

. Hate speech, according to Richardson-Self involves

only violence

violence and oppression in the form of subordination, exploitation, and cultural imperialism.

only forms of oppression like subordination, exploitation, and cultural imperialism.

none of the above

. According to Kate Manne, misogyny involves

the patriarchy-reinforcing naturalization of sex differences.

coercive mechanisms to enforce patriarchy.

an attack on all women as a group.

no significant difference with sexism.

. Which of the following are forms of misogynist speech according to Richardson-Self?

Interdivisional misogynist speech

Intradivisional misogynist speech

Interpersonal misogynist speech

A and B only

. According to Altman, justifications of speech codes that take account of which of the following kinds of harm have the best prospects for success?

causal harm

expressive harm

both causal and expressive harm

auxiliary harm

. Altman believes that there are significant difficulties associated with defending a pro-censorship position based solely on claims of which of the following kinds of harm?

expressive harm

causal harm

physical harm

intentional harm

. In Altman's characterization, racial epithets and similar terms of abuse are communicative tools for expressing an extreme form of which of the following?

moral blame

moral praise

moral contempt

none of the above

. According to Altman, a viewpoint-biased speech restriction should be troubling to whom?

those who value a strong right to privacy

those who value strong protections for freedom of speech

those who don't value strong protection for freedom of speech

those who value equal educational opportunity

. Lukianoff and Haidt argue that American colleges and universities now encourage

emotional reasoning.

critical reasoning.

reflective reasoning.

all of the above.

. Lukianoff and Haidt argue that trigger warnings involve which kind of pathological thinking?

fortune-telling

blaming

dichotomous thinking

resentment

. The goal of cognitive-behavioral therapy is to

build grit.

minimize distorted thinking.

reward good behavior.

achieve stoic wisdom.

. Lukianoff and Haidt argue that the disinvitation of certain speakers

is an example of mental filtering.

will only serve to promote intellectual homogeneity on college and universities.

will encourage students to disregard positive aspects of a person's history.

All of the above.

. Mill is a paternalist about state authority.

True

False

. According to Mill, the harm principle applies to all persons regardless of maturity or mental faculty.

True

False

. Mill asserts a sovereign right of a person over his or her body and mind.

True

False

. Marginalization is not a form of oppression on Richardson-Self's view.

True

False

. Richardson-Self accepts the view that misogyny involves the coercive enforcement of patriarchal social norms.

True

False

. According to Altman, it's easy to justify speech codes solely on the basis of the harmful causal effects of hate speech.

True

False

. According to Altman, the university's role as a "testing ground for claims to knowledge" makes it difficult for advocates of speech codes to justify those codes solely by appeal to the harmful causal consequences of hate speech.

True

False

. Lukianoff and Haidt suggest that cognitive-behavioral therapy is like a modern take on Stoic and Buddhist wisdom.

True

False

. One solution Lukianoff and Haidt suggest for colleges and universities to deal with vindictive protectiveness is to teach students cognitive-behavioral therapy.

True

False

. Altman thinks that speech codes are expressive affirmations of racial equality.

True

False

. Mill asserts an absolute freedom of opinion on _________ subjects.

. To silence a viewpoint is the same as, Mill says, asserting that one is _________.

. Oppressive violence is _________ as it targets persons because of their group status, rather than at random or as individuals.

. Because sexist speech does not involve _________, Richardson-Self argues that it is not hate speech.

. On Richardson-Self's analysis of misogynistic hate speech, such speech has the upshot of keeping all women down by attacking only a _________of them.

. _________ is the distorted thinking pattern in which we exaggerate the importance of things.

. Lukianoff and Haidt suggest that because it is unacceptable in academic circles to _________ the victim, it becomes nearly impossible to question the reasonableness of someone's emotional state.

. According to Altman, it's difficult to justify _________ solely on the basis of the harmful causal effects of hate speech.

. According to Altman, the flying of the Confederate flag over Alabama's capitol constituted a(n) _________ harm to blacks.

. As Altman notes, taking account of the expressive power of racial epithets involves some departure from the principle that restrictions on speech should be _________.

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