Exercise 2.13.3

PHI332 : The Class : Argument ID : Sample Quizzes : Exercise 2.13.3

Exercise 2.13.3

The claim that what makes killing wrong is the loss of the victim's future is directly supported by two considerations. In the first place, this theory explains why we regard killing as one of the worst of crimes. Killing is especially wrong, because it deprives the victim of more than perhaps any other crime. In the second place, people with AIDS or cancer who know they are dying believe, of course, that dying is a very bad thing for them They believe that the loss of a future to them that they would otherwise have experienced is what makes their premature death a very bad thing for them. A better theory of the wrongness of killing would require a different natural property associated with killing which better fits with the attitudes of the dying. What could it be?(355).

Download Word file.

Check your work.

Once you have completed this excercise you should:

Go on to Exercise2-13-4
or
Go back to Sample Quizzes

E-mail George Rudebusch at George.Rudebusch@nau.edu
or call (520) 523-7091