The Distant Nuclear Fireworks Example Has Us Consider the Last

question 22

Multiple Choice

The distant nuclear fireworks example has us consider the last man on a spaceship watching as Earth is about to crash into the Sun, killing all the life on it. The last man can delay this inevitable event by five years by firing a missile from the spaceship. The authors think our intuitive moral judgment should be that the last man has no such obligation. What would this show?

• A) The vice of wrath does all the moral work in the original last man case.
• B) Nature has intrinsic value.
• C) Nature only has instrumental value.
• D) Nuclear power is environmentally friendly.

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