Your Text Indicates Five Distinct Criteria That the So-Called Method

question 23

Multiple Choice

Your text indicates five distinct criteria that the so-called Method II arguments may use to determine the moral status of a being (such as a fetus) : 1. Being Human, 2. Being Like Human, 3. Potentiality, 4. Evolving Value, or 5. Actuality. For the following Method II claims, determine which of these five criteria is being employed.
"Though human, this fetus does not have the potential to develop the abilities of a person, for it has no upper brain. Thus, it does not have full rights to life."  Which Method II is assumed by this claim?

• A)Potentiality.
• B)Being like humans.
• C)Being human.
• D)Actuality.
• E)Evolving value.

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