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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