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Q: Determine whether the following passage is (or contains) an argument. "Today, there is strong evidencenot only in theory but in practicethat families who try to protect dying children from knowing theyre dying rarely serve the childs best interests. This conspiracy of silence, however well-meaning, often puts nurses, relatives, and others who spend the most time with the patient, especially in their lonely moments, on the spot."

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Q: Determine whether the following passage is (or contains) an argument. "[Lionel L.] Lewis discovered that, in recommendations of merit written by administrators and faculty themselves, although they put much emphasis (two-thirds) upon student related activitiesteaching, advising, course planning, and popularityno one argues from any supporting evidence other than, Everyone knows."

Q: Determine whether the following passage is (or contains) an argument. Some would prefer to say that every human being is both a body and a mind. Bodies are in space and subject to the mechanical laws that govern all other bodies in space. But minds are not in space, nor are their operations subject to mechanical laws. Bodily processes and states can be inspected by external observers, but the workings of one mind are not witnessable by other observers. And so a person lives through two collateral histories; but the actual transactions between the episodes of the private history and those of the public history remain mysterious, since by definition they can belong to neither series.

Q: Determine whether the following passage is (or contains) an argument. "If American business is to regain an advantageous position in the international marketplace, it must recreate a climate of flexibility and entrepreneurship. Unfortunately, the trend is to seek personal success not through entrepreneurship but through professionalism, as a continued climb in the number of advanced degrees in business and law confirms. If this tendency to seek personal security and prestige by joining the ranks of the professionally comfortable continues, the real winners will be Americas overseas competitors."

Q: Determine whether the following passage is (or contains) an argument. "The recent failure of a Drake University student to halt his former girlfriends plan for an abortion focuses light on a seldom considered situation: While a womans right to an abortion should not be weakened, the idea of fathers rights raised in this case should be discussed."

Q: Determine whether the following passage is (or contains) an argument. "The main danger of war, even of a war fought with conventional weapons, lies in its unpredictability."

Q: Determine whether the following passage is (or contains) an argument. "The personal computer revolution is marked by accidental discoveries. The entire market for these things was a big surprise to all the pioneers who put simple ads in hobbyist magazines and were stunned by an onslaught of eager customers."

Q: Determine whether the following passage is (or contains) an argument. "It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question."

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Q: Determine whether the following passage is (or contains) an argument. Computers will never be able to converse intelligently through speech. A simple example proves that this is so. The sentences "How do you recognize speech?" and "How do you wreck a nice beach?" sound just the same when they are spoken, but they mean something different. A computer could not distinguish the two.

Q: Determine whether the following passage is (or contains) an argument. "Gene splicing is the most awesome and powerful skill acquired by man since the splitting of the atom. If pursued humanistically, its potential to serve humanity is enormous. We will use it to synthesize expensive natural productsinterferon, substances such as insulin, and human endorphins that serve as natural painkillers. We will be able to create a second green revolution in agriculture to produce new high-yield, disease-resistant, self-fertilizing crops. Gene splicing has the potential to synthesize new substances we can substitute for oil, coal, and other raw materialskeys to a self-sustaining society."

Q: Determine whether the following passage is (or contains) an argument. "The argument advanced at a recent government hearingthat because we will not be dependent on plutonium for more than a few hundred years it will not be an important problem indefinitelyentirely misses the point. Though we may rely on plutonium for only a relatively brief period, the plutonium produced during that period may be with us indefinitely, and it may jeopardize the lives of many times the number of generations that profit from its use."

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Q: Determine whether the following passage is (or contains) an argument. Will a beverage begin to cool more quickly in the freezer or in the regular part of the refrigerator? Well, of course itll cool faster in the freezer! There are lots of people who dont understand anything at all about physics and who think things may begin to cool faster in the fridge. But theyre sadly mistaken.

Q: The financial inducements associated with egg donation raises serious issues about informed consent.

Q: It is undisputed that a sperm donor has no moral responsibilities towards any children that he fathers with his donated sperm.

Q: Magill and Neaves claim that if stem cells can be derived from human skin cells there can be no moral objection to research on stem cells from this source.

Q: Michael Sandel argues that we should pursue genetic enhancements to secure the most perfect humans possible.

Q: Julian Savulescu argues that society has a moral obligation not to allow tests for non-disease genes (if they become available) to be used in making reproductive decisions.

Q: Rawlss principles of justice would give us reason to provide social support to a genetically impaired child.

Q: Currently, several state and federal laws make it a crime for couples who are genetically considered bad risks to have children.

Q: Genetic screening involves public health programs that survey target populations with the aim of detecting individuals at risk of disease for genetic reasons.

Q: It has been suggested that every disease involves a genetic component in some way.

Q: At the current moment, only about 100 human diseases have been identified as involving genetic factors.

Q: There is no difference between therapeutic and non-therapeutic cloning.

Q: Roman Catholic moral thought holds that it is morally wrong to destroy a human embryo to acquire stem cells.

Q: Because embryonic stem cells have the capacity to become cells of any type, it is possible that they could be used to produce whatever sort of cells that are needed to treat a particular disease.

Q: Before embryonic stem cells begin to differentiate, they have the potential to become any of the specialized cells.

Q: It is undisputed that the fetus has the same moral status as a person.

Q: Even granted the role of genes in producing diseases, it is important to keep in mind that predispositions are not themselves diseases.

Q: Multifactorial diseases have more than one cause, and so cannot be successfully treated.

Q: Carl Cohen believes that animals are the sort of beings that can possess rights and, because of that, we cannot morally sacrifice their interests for the welfare of others.

Q: Peter Singer believes that speciesism is essential to right conduct.

Q: According to Peter Singer, there never has been and never could be a single experiment that saved thousands of lives.

Q: Hans Jonas believes that it is inherently wrong to force an individual to sacrifice him/herself to a social goal.

Q: Paul Ramsey believes that it may be morally legitimate to use captive populations of children in research studies.

Q: Tom Regan argues that animals have a form of autonomy since they have preferences.

Q: The majority of Phase III clinical trials sponsored by drug companies are carried out in the United States.

Q: Educated and wealthy persons are equally as likely to become research subjects as the uneducated and poor.

Q: The majority of medical research projects offer clear benefits to those who consent to be subjects in them.

Q: The related but distinct aims of medical research and therapy are a source of conflict in human experimentation.

Q: The requirement that a person must consent to be in a medical trial can be satisfied by her simply agreeing to be in a medical trial.

Q: The notion of informed consent is a recognition of individual autonomy.

Q: Double-blind test designs are intended to rule out the influence of the expectations of researchers and patients.

Q: Researchers at the Willowbrook State School in New York deliberately infected children with hepatitis during the course of their experiments.

Q: The aim of Abigail Alliance was to change FDA policies to give terminally ill patients easier access to investigational drugs that might benefit them.

Q: From a medical standpoint, childrens interests can differ from those of their parents.

Q: The California Supreme Court ruled that the therapists at the University of California, Berkeley, were not negligent in failing to warn Tatiana Tarasoff that one of her patients had threatened Tarasoff because a therapist has an absolute duty to protect her patients confidentiality.

Q: Mark Siegler argues that the confidentiality of the physician-patient relationship can be maintained in modern hospital setting by making sophisticated use of new electronic recording keeping.

Q: Cullen and Klein argue that the principle of respect for persons grounds physicians duties not to deceive their patients.

Q: Michelle Gold believes that truth-telling should be viewed as a dialogue between moral agents.

Q: According to Eugene Rosam, it is unacceptable to try to convince Jehovahs Witness parents to give up their beliefs.

Q: Anita Catlin argues that in cases where the patients are Jehovahs Witness children, physicians should explore alternative treatments not requiring the use of blood products.

Q: According to Onora ONeill the autonomy of actual patients is limited.

Q: When parents fail to take reasonable steps to secure the welfare of their children, then doing so becomes a matter of interest to the state.

Q: Patients have historically, sociologically and psychologically held an equal and independent role with respect to physicians.

Q: To act autonomously is to have our actions be the outcome of our self-determining deliberations and choices.

Q: Mayor Bloombergs attempt to cap the portion sizes of sugar-sweetened drinks in New York City was an example of the application of "personal paternalism".

Q: Autonomy is considered to be an absolute and unconditional right that cannot be infringed upon under any circumstances.

Q: The cause of Robyn Twitchells death was so rare and complex that it is unlikely that she could have been successfully treated even if her parents had taken her to a hospital.

Q: There is a cost to prizing the right of parents to make decisions about their childrens best interests.

Q: Identity-based theorists reject the use of universal moral concepts.

Q: If an ethical theory is based solely on intuitions then, Nussbaum claims, it has no relevance to real problems.

Q: W.D. Ross rejects pluralistic approaches to ethics in favor of a duty-based approach.

Q: The capabilities approach takes health as its primary focus.

Q: Martha Nussbaum endorses a capabilities approach to ethics.

Q: One criticism of feminist ethics is that it is too unified and dogmatic a view to prove useful.

Q: One problem with virtue ethics is that it provides us with no explicit guidance on how to act in a particular circumstance.

Q: Autonomy is an absolute right and should never be restricted under any circumstances.

Q: According to the Principle of Effort, the president of a company should receive a greater share of social goods than his/her file clerk (assuming that they both work equally as hard) because the presidents contributions to society are inherently more important and difficult.

Q: Immanuel Kant believes that an action is right when it is in accordance with a rule that satisfies a principle that he calls the categorical imperative and thus he believes that the consequences of an action are morally irrelevant.

Q: One of the most serious objections to utilitarianism is that it may justify the imposition of great suffering on a few people in order to benefit a great many of people.

Q: Act utilitarians maintain that the principle of utility should be used to test rules, which can in turn be used to decide the rightness of particular acts.

Q: Rule utilitarians hold that the principle of utility should be applied to particular acts in particular circumstances.