Virtually Everyone Thinks That Being Cruel to Animals-Unnecessarily Causing Them

question 17

Multiple Choice

Virtually everyone thinks that being cruel to animals-unnecessarily causing them pain or misery-is

• A) sometimes permissible.
• B) wrong.
• C) right.
• D) relative to the animal's intelligence.

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Definitions:

Market

A place or arrangement through which goods and services are exchanged between buyers and sellers.

Public Good

A commodity or service that is provided without profit to all members of a society, either by the government or by a private individual or organization.

Nonrival-in-consumption

A characteristic of goods where one person's consumption does not diminish the ability of others to use the same good.

Nonexcludable

A characteristic of a good or service that prevents the owner from effectively denying access to it to non-paying individuals or entities.