Exam 12: Financial Statement Analysis

State whether the following item expresses moral value or nonmoral value; or no value at all. The judge in this case is a very informed person.

Evaluate the issue of human cloning from the viewpoint of a virtue ethicist.

Identify the moral perspective at work here: Taffy is a university lab chimpanzee; the university has lost its animal research grant and has to decide what to do with Taffy. It depends on Taffy's condition; if she is healthy and can expect a long life, she should be taken to a place where she can live a full life; if the experiments have impaired her health to the point where she is suffering and won't recover, she should be put to sleep.

In the following, discuss whether Marina is treating relevantly similar cases in sufficiently similar fashions; identify instances in which the cases are not relevantly similar. Marina offers her daughter's fiancé a job in the company she owns, but it never occurs to her to do the same for her son's fiancée.

Identify the moral perspective at work here: At the supermarket, Vickie just ran her cart into a display of jars with jams and preserves, and now the aisle is full of broken glass and jam. She feels like leaving the store as quickly as possible. Is that an acceptable course of action? No, it isn't, because she has caused product loss that necessitates more work for the employees. So the least she can do is report what she has done and pay for damages.

Identify the moral perspective at work here: At the supermarket, Vickie just ran her cart into a display of jars with jams and preserves, and now the aisle is full of broken glass and jam. She feels like leaving the store as quickly as possible. Is that an acceptable course of action? Yes, it is; since Vickie's religion says that it's OK to act like this, she's justified. However, since our religion says we should clean up the mess, we wouldn't be justified.

Suppose that the following pair of statements appears in a review of the same work of art. Identify which of the aesthetic principles referred to in the text each statement in the pair appeals to. Then state whether the principles are compatible and thus form the basis for a consistent review, or whether they are incompatible and cannot both be used in a consistent review. a. Art that misleads us about reality is dangerous. b. The great virtue of F.Scott Fitzgerald's novels is that they evoke a desire for a way of life that is extinct-indeed, a kind of life that likely never was.

For the following, try to come up with an additional premise that will turn the passage into a deductively valid or an inductively strong argument. Usually this requires adding a general moral principle and, sometimes, an extra nonmoral claim as well. The idea is to guarantee that the "ought" claim follows from the "is" claim. It's time to restore diplomatic relations with Cuba. Doing so will make the hemisphere a safer place.

State whether the reason given here is relevant according to any one of the aesthetic principles; and if it is relevant, identify the principle that makes it so. Ruben's nudes are so sensuous that this exhibit of them will make Manhattan society reject the dangerous motto, "Never too rich or too thin."

A moral imperative prescribes an action, not for the sake of some result, but simply because that action is our moral duty.

In the following, discuss whether Marina is treating relevantly similar cases in sufficiently similar fashions; identify instances in which the cases are not relevantly similar. Marina's will stipulates that her son by birth will receive substantially more of her estate than will her adopted son, even though both sons love her equally, have treated her with similar regard, and have lived with her for about the same amount of time.

State whether the following item expresses moral value or nonmoral value; or no value at all. All cigarette advertising should be strictly regulated.

In this pair of cases, the first may serve as precedent for the second. Decide whether the second case is so relevantly similar to the first that it should be decided identically. Explain your decision.

State whether the reason given here is relevant according to any one of the aesthetic principles; and if it is relevant, identify the principle that makes it so. Raphael's painting is so illuminating because it manifests the Renaissance conviction that the realms of heaven and earth can be merged.

In the following, discuss whether Marina is treating relevantly similar cases in sufficiently similar fashions; identify instances in which the cases are not relevantly similar. Marina calls it to the clerk's attention when she is overcharged but not when she is undercharged.

Suppose that the following pair of statements appears in a review of the same work of art. Identify which of the aesthetic principles referred to in the text each statement in the pair appeals to. Then state whether the principles are compatible and thus form the basis for a consistent review, or whether they are incompatible and cannot both be used in a consistent review. a. A poem should not mean but be. b. To appreciate Paradise Lost, it is essential to determine whether Milton meant Satan as a figure of evil, or as a liberated and thus attractively heroic figure.

Given the following position on euthanasia (doctor-assisted suicide), identify which of the three major ethical theories discussed in the text-utilitarianism, duty theory, or virtue ethics-it follows. Note that each theory may encompass several possible viewpoints on an issue. Active euthanasia should not be legalized; it is much too dangerous. The consequences could be devastating to our society. If we allow terminally ill people access to euthanasia, what guarantees do we have that such access won't be abused? It would be easy to imagine greedy relatives insisting that it is better for Grandma to die sooner than linger in pain, or to imagine Grandma choosing to die sooner so she won't cost the family a lot of money. Overall, access to euthanasia may cause terrible unhappiness.

State whether the following item expresses moral value or nonmoral value; or no value at all. Every year this town records more than 100 homicide cases.

State whether the following item expresses moral value or nonmoral value; or no value at all. It is not in the best interests of the United States to intervene in local wars outside U.S. territory.

State whether the following item expresses moral value or nonmoral value; or no value at all. Pat won a free trip to Europe-she's the luckiest person I know.