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6. Which is a correct Singer quote?

  • "I'm craving a burger"
  • "In suffering the animals are our equals."
  • "Speciesism is the most pressing issue of this century"
  • "All lives matter"

7. Peter Singer thought that the way animals are currently treated is...

  • Not a moral issue
  • Against our duty towards animals
  • Morally Unjustifiable
  • Morrally Justifiable

8. Recent Virtue Ethicists believe that

  • Not to recognise the importance of animal suffering is to show a lack of compassion
  • Not to recognise the importance of animal suffering is irrelevant to producing a virtuous charcter
  • Selfishly treating an animal as a meat-growing machine is good
  • Using animal products is always wrong

9. When is harm to animals justified according to a utilitarian?

  • When the pleasure created outweighs the animal's suffering
  • Never
  • Always since animals do not have souls
  • Always because animals do not have autonomy or motives for actions

10. Which is true (according to Peter Singer)?

  • It is irrelevant the way in which an animal suffers.
  • A young orphaned infant has more interests than a primate.
  • The interests of animals should be taken into account differently as all have varied experience and levels of interests
  • The interests of animals should all be viewed as completely equal

11. Under what conditions would treating animals badly be morally wrong for Kant?

  • If the animals are the subject of a life
  • If it compromises a person's ability to treat other humans well, and therefore threatens the person's own moral integrity.
  • If animals develop better communication skills so that they can explain their experience of pain.
  • If the overall suffering of animals outweighs the pleasure this bad treatment creates for humans.

12. Guess the correct Kant quote:

  • "Humans that lack reason have no intrinsic value"
  • Humans have "ultimate power" over everything on Earth
  • Humans can "deal and dispose [of animals] at one's discretion"
  • Treating animals badly because they are animals is "speciesism"

13. Equality of Moral interest must be based on what according to Singer?

  • Sentience
  • Suffering
  • Intelligence
  • Strength