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

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

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

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

A.   a pandemic virus

B.   a surgeon operating on organ donors 

C.   Self-driving car

D.   Public Housing Design

A.   morality 

B.   utilitarianism 

C.   relativism 

D.   ethics

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

B.   That the ends always justify the means

C.   That we need to protect morality from relativism.

D.   To be open-minded about other cultures.

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

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

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

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

A.   relativism 

B.   egoism

C.   morality

D.   ethics

E.   utilitarianism

A.   Different societies have different moral codes.

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

C.   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.

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

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.   Action and Inaction

B.   Consquentialism and Deontology

C.   Hedonism and Virtue

D.   Egoism and Communalism

A.   volatile marriage

B.   male domination

C.   morally permissible infanticide

D.   disregard for the life of elders

A.   egoism

B.   utilitarianism

C.   relativism

D.   ethics