environment ethics question answer
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Sagoff argues that environmentalists and animal liberationists have more in common than they think.
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Question 21 pts
Adams believes that the symbology of meat consumption is a core element of masculine subjectivity in most cultures.
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Question 31 pts
Norton-Smith compares the Shawnee concept of “manitou†to the Western concept of “mind.â€
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Question 41 pts
Kant argued that human beings have direct duties to animals.
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Question 51 pts
Aristotle theorized that bees, as gregarious animals, must use complex forms of speech to communicate the location of food and water.
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Question 61 pts
Kant believed that all and only rational beings are persons.
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Question 71 pts
Leopold argued that conservation should be made easy so that everybody can do it without too big of a sacrifice.
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Question 81 pts
Deloria argues that sacred sites are not just experienced subjectively but that they have an objective component as well.
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Question 91 pts
Norton-Smith believes that the main criterion for personhood should be sentience.
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Question 101 pts
For Leopold, economic incentives for conservation succeed in some cases but will never be sufficient to sustain the biotic community.
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Question 111 pts
According to Sagoff, the central principle of humane utilitarianism is to reduce animal suffering.
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Question 121 pts
Carol Adams calls her point of view “paleo-feminism.”
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Question 131 pts
Uncompromising animal liberationists like Singer believe that dogs, cats, and cows should be able to vote.
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Question 141 pts
Adams believes that men tend to eat more meat because of their higher nutritional need for protein.
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Question 151 pts
Singer’s argument suggests that most people are speciesist.
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Question 161 pts
A central concern of the Occupy movement has been the decolonization of Native lands in the United States.
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Question 171 pts
According to Bunge, whites believe that Native Americans waste the land.
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Question 181 pts
For Leopold, humans and other large omnivores are at the top of the land pyramid because they are the most advanced and influential species.
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Question 191 pts
Bunge argues that land is not some external object but that it is constituted by the feeling or experience we have of it.
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Question 201 pts
Norton-Smith claims that all beings that are animate are also alive in the biological sense.
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Question 211 pts
From an ecocentric perspective, the most important value is the integrity of the biotic community as a whole.
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Question 221 pts
Tuck and Yang believe that the United States is a nation of immigrants.
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Question 231 pts
Adams claims that most patriarchal cultures sexualize animals and animal flesh.
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Question 241 pts
Descartes argued that animals have eternal souls but that they will never get into heaven because they are sinful fornicators.
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Question 251 pts
For Singer, all living organisms deserve equal moral consideration.
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Question 262 pts
In the film Standing on Sacred Ground, Native Hawaiians reclaimed an island that had been used for testing __________________________________.
Question 272 pts
According to Bunge, the human relation to land is constituted by a __________________________.
Question 282 pts
“A thing is right when it tends to preserve the __________________________, stability, and beauty of the biotic community.â€
Question 292 pts
Singer emphasizes that equal consideration should not be confused with equal _____________________________________.
Question 302 pts
For Kant, the ability of rational beings to give themselves moral laws implies that they should never be used merely as a means because they are _____________________________________ (three words).
Question 312 pts
In Alberta, Canada, Indigenous peoples are battling the environmental fallout from the mining of __________________________________________ (two words).
Question 322 pts
According to Tuck and Yang, American Indian peoples live in a structural form of oppression that is properly called ________________________________________________ (two words).
Question 332 pts
Deloria argues that sacred places must remain __________________________.
Question 342 pts
According to Sagoff, animal liberationists can never be _____________________________.
Question 352 pts
The sexual politics of meat entails an attitude that sexualizes animals and __________________________ women.