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

question 6

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.
" Some human beings simply do not have full moral status, because they do not actually have the ability to think and communicate (for example, those in a persistent vegetative state) . "  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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