An Individual Could Argue That Smashing a Window to Save

question 33

Multiple Choice

An individual could argue that smashing a window to save a dog trapped in a hot car is defensible and ethical. This rationale is based on which of the following principles?

• A) the ethics of rights
• B) the ethics of duties
• C) egoism
• D) utilitarianism
• E) virtue ethics

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Definitions:

Sample Proportion

The fraction of the sample that exhibits a certain trait or characteristic.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, indicating how much the values in the data set deviate from the mean.

Standard Error

A measure of the standard deviation of the sampling distribution of a statistic, indicating the accuracy with which a sample represents a population.

Standard Deviation

A statistical metric that quantifies the dispersion or spread of a dataset relative to its mean.