According to Chapter 7, Why Do the Nonmoral Similarities Between

question 19

Multiple Choice

According to Chapter 7, why do the nonmoral similarities between two actions support the claim that we should make the same moral judgments about them?

• A) Because we should treat like cases alike.
• B) Because that is how common-law legal systems work.
• C) Because it is rhetorically persuasive to draw analogies.
• D) Because the nonmoral similarities provoke similar moral intuitions.

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