Ethics Chapter 16&18

The article by William Baxter utilized primarily _____________ reasoning.

In Deep Ecology, through what means is happiness gained?

The old Native American saying, "before you act, consider the consequences on the next seven generations," is best described as what kind of thinking?

To say that a wilderness has prima facie value means that it must be preserved no matter what the cost to do so.

Anthropocentrists value nature for its own sake.

Ecocentrists are distinguished by their rejection of the anthropocentric idea that _____________.

How, in Aldo Leopold's ethics, are right actions to be distinguished from wrong ones?

What does a biocentrist/ecocentrist believe?

Ecocentrism relies on what form of moral reasoning?

According to anthropocentrism, what has intrinsic value?

Cost benefit analyses involve both assessments and evaluations.

What does it mean for ecocentrists to regard a tree or a fish as a moral patient?

The word environment comes from an Old French word meaning

The view known as deep ecology is most essentially concerned with the idea that people depend on their environment in many ways.

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.

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.

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.

One of the central issues in the debate over embryonic stem cell research is the moral status of the human blastocyst, a fertilized ball of cells that is smaller than a grain of sand.

All successful cloning produces a genetically identical reproduction of a full animal or plant.​

The Human Genome Project was completed in:

According to your text, of the 20,000 human genes, how many are unique to humans and not found in other animals?

A common ethical objection to human reproductive cloning is

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.

Stem cells are

Embryonic stem cells are called omnipotent, because they can develop into many different kinds of tissue.

Mammals have never been cloned.

How has nearly all the food we eat been "genetically modified" in the broadest sense of the term?

In most cases, prosthetic limbs are an example of an enhancement technology.​

The argument that human personhood begins at conception and, therefore, human embryos should not be used for scientific research is founded in

According to the Human Genome Project, human beings' genes are 99.9% identical, regardless of race or sex.

In most cases, GMOs are an example of an enhancement technology.​

The Human Genome Project was designed to alter and perfect the human genetic code.

The "playing God" argument against cloning