What Is the Principal Question Metz Is Addressing in "African

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Multiple Choice

What is the principal question Metz is addressing in "African Values and Capital Punishment"?

• A) Is the death penalty ever morally permissible according to traditional African values?
• B) Which traditionally African values best explain the wrongness of the death penalty?
• C) Why does the concept of ubuntu entail the inherent wrongness of capital punishment?
• D) Why do traditionally African consequentialist arguments against the death penalty fail?

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Definitions:

Transform Faulting

A type of strike-slip fault where two tectonic plates slide past each other horizontally, typically found at mid-ocean ridges.

Mid-Ocean Ridge

An underwater mountain range, formed by plate tectonics, where new oceanic crust is created through volcanic activity.

Seafloor Spreading

A geologic process where new oceanic crust is formed at mid-ocean ridges and slowly moves away from the ridge, contributing to continental drift.

Subduction

The process by which one tectonic plate moves under another, sinking into the Earth's mantle.