According to Collins, Why Do Relationships Have to Be Objectively

question 111

Multiple Choice

According to Collins, why do relationships have to be objectively life enhancing for the people in them to be morally valuable?

• A) Because otherwise care ethics would imply that people in abusive relationships should always try to promote and preserve those relationships.
• B) Because if morality is not objective, then no particular moral theory, including care ethics, can be correct, in which case care ethicists couldn't call those relationships morally valuable.
• C) Because people may not care about others with whom they have only distant relationships, but those relationships are still just as important as closer relationships.
• D) Because relationships, like food, shelter, and so on, are morally important only insofar as they benefit people.

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