In response to complaints from students that some professors…
In response to complaints from students that some professors were allowing a few select students in their classes to do extra credit assignments to pull up their grades, the administration issued a memo telling professors that they cannot give extra credit assignments unless the whole class has an opportunity to earn extra credit. Which of the following duties was the administration referring to?
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Suppose that someone proposes that condemned murderers be allowed to sacrifice their lives by taking part in certain-death medical experiments. That is, instead of dying in the electric chair (etc.), they would give their lives that others might live. They would pay their debt to society by giving their lives to medical research. If another person argues against this proposal by pointing out that this is not the American way of doing things, that all certain-death medical experiments are wrong, that two wrongs do not make a right, and that this proposal “treats humans in an inhuman way,” then this opposition to the voluntary-sacrifice proposal is most probably based on which ethical system.
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