Which of the Following Is NOT a Shortcoming of Rights

question 12

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is NOT a shortcoming of rights theory?

• A) It truncates the moral significance of motives, supererogatory actions, and virtues.
• B) Rights theory needs to be buttressed by theories of obligation and virtue.
• C) It fails to garner the level of respect in health care institutions that other kinds of moral categories such as obligation and virtue receive.
• D) Its individualist emphasis fails to give as central a place to social ideals and communal interests.

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