A.   To provide an example of a moral act that most people across cultures would argue is always wrong.

B.   Trick question, he doesn't actually bring up excision in this chapter.

C.   To demonstrate how religion is the key to solving moral disputes.

D.   To show that all moral actions are always equally moral.

A.   a surgeon operating on organ donors 

B.   Public Housing Design

C.   a pandemic virus

D.   Self-driving car

A.   utilitarianism 

B.   relativism 

C.   ethics

D.   morality 

A.   That there is no such thing as right or wrong.

B.   That we need to protect morality from relativism.

C.   That the ends always justify the means

D.   To be open-minded about other cultures.

A.   It is easier to convince people from different cultures what is right or wrong.

B.   The idea of moral progress is called into doubt.

C.   We could no longer say that the customs of other societies are morally inferior to our own.

D.   We could no longer criticize the code of our own society.

A.   utilitarianism

B.   relativism 

C.   ethics

D.   morality

E.   egoism

A.   There is no objective standard that can be used to judge one society’s code as better than another’s. There are no moral truths that hold for all people at all times.

B.   The moral code of our own society has no special sta- tus; it is but one among many.

C.   It is arrogant for us to judge other cultures. We should always be tolerant of them.

D.   Different societies have different moral codes.

E.   The moral code of a society determines what is right within that society; that is, if the moral code of a society says that a certain action is right, then that action is right, at least within that society.

A.   Hedonism and Virtue

B.   Egoism and Communalism

C.   Consquentialism and Deontology

D.   Action and Inaction

A.   morally permissible infanticide

B.   disregard for the life of elders

C.   male domination

D.   volatile marriage

A.   egoism

B.   relativism

C.   utilitarianism

D.   ethics