Which of the Following Best Explains Why Drawing Analogies Between

question 13

Multiple Choice

Which of the following best explains why drawing analogies between two actions can lead to a particular moral conclusion about one of them?

• A) People must be able to depend on others' consistent judgment from one case to the next, and so it is important not to change your mind about your moral judgments.
• B) Because, as the American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."
• C) If two things are similar enough in nonmoral ways, then it would be inconsistent or even hypocritical to make different moral judgments about them.
• D) By provoking moral intuitions related to one action, the argument can provoke similar moral intuitions about the second action.

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