Harry Brighouse and Adam Swift Introduce an Intermediate Moral Principle

question 9

Multiple Choice

Harry Brighouse and Adam Swift introduce an intermediate moral principle about parenting to:

• A) Show that income inequality is a serious moral problem because of the way it enables some parents to provide unfair advantages to their own children.
• B) Justify the claim that parents are morally permitted to take any legal steps to benefit their children, even if that means putting other people's children at a competitive disadvantage.
• C) Help resolve conflicts between the parental obligation to pursue good outcomes for one's children and the universal obligation to be fair to others.
• D) Help parents understand how to apply the universal obligations of beneficence and nonmaleficence to their own children.

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