Multiple Choice Questions

The "yuck factor" argument against human cloning holds that we ought to trust our gut reactions to certain procedures as indicative of their moral nature.
  • True
  • False
Because human interests in a livable environment often compete with other human economic interests, many find cost-benefit analyses useful for judging, weighing, and comparing benefits and costs.
  • True
  • False
The Human Genome Project was completed in:
  • True
  • False
  • 2000
  • 300
How has nearly all the food we eat been "genetically modified" in the broadest sense of the term?
  • It means that we must care for these life forms for their own sake, and not just for the sake of how it might ultimately impact us.
  • It has been cross-bred for centuries.
  • Only humans have intrinsic value.
  • Is not necessarily a religious argument.
Embryonic stem cells are called omnipotent, because they can develop into many different kinds of tissue.
  • True
  • False
The "playing God" argument against cloning
  • It has been cross-bred for centuries.
  • A biocentrist believes that intrinsic value is not limited to humans
  • Is not necessarily a religious argument.
  • Turning around in
What does a biocentrist/ecocentrist believe?
  • A biocentrist believes that intrinsic value is not limited to humans
  • Is not necessarily a religious argument.
  • It means that we must care for these life forms for their own sake, and not just for the sake of how it might ultimately impact us.
  • Through simple communion with one's local ecosystem.
The old Native American saying, "before you act, consider the consequences on the next seven generations," is best described as what kind of thinking?
  • Pluripotent
  • Anthropocentric
  • Categorical imperative.
  • Turning around in
Stem cells are
  • Humans only.
  • Turning around in
  • Anthropocentric
  • Pluripotent
In most cases, GMOs are an example of an enhancement technology.​
  • True
  • False
The word environment comes from an Old French word meaning
  • All of these choices.
  • Anthropocentric
  • Humans only.
  • Turning around in
Some ecofeminists believe that the source of our environmental problems lies in the fact that we relate to nature by trying to assert dominance over it.
  • True
  • False
The Human Genome Project was designed to alter and perfect the human genetic code.
  • True
  • False
How, in Aldo Leopold's ethics, are right actions to be distinguished from wrong ones?
  • A biocentrist believes that intrinsic value is not limited to humans
  • It has been cross-bred for centuries.
  • Right actions tend to preserve the stability and beauty of nature; wrong actions tend to do otherwise.
  • It means that we must care for these life forms for their own sake, and not just for the sake of how it might ultimately impact us.
According to the Human Genome Project, human beings' genes are 99.9% identical, regardless of race or sex.
  • True
  • False
Some opponents of stem cell research argue that the early undifferentiated cells of the blastocyst have the full moral status of a person, and thus cannot be used in medical research.
  • True
  • False
A common ethical objection to human reproductive cloning is
  • All of these choices.
  • Turning around in
  • Humans only.
  • Categorical imperative.
Cost benefit analyses involve both assessments and evaluations.
  • True
  • False
According to anthropocentrism, what has intrinsic value?
  • Anthropocentric
  • Turning around in
  • All of these choices.
  • Humans only.
The article by William Baxter utilized primarily _____________ reasoning.
  • Turning around in
  • Anthropocentric
  • Humans only.
  • Pluripotent
Ecocentrism relies on what form of moral reasoning?
  • Only humans have intrinsic value.
  • False
  • Natural Law
  • Turning around in
The view known as deep ecology is most essentially concerned with the idea that people depend on their environment in many ways.
  • True
  • False
Ecocentrists are distinguished by their rejection of the anthropocentric idea that _____________.
  • All of these choices.
  • Only humans have intrinsic value.
  • Humans only.
  • It has been cross-bred for centuries.
To say that a wilderness has prima facie value means that it must be preserved no matter what the cost to do so.
  • True
  • False
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