Phil101 Exam Review | Questions and Answers 2024
What are the three main objections given by critics of pet cloning? How does Feister reply to
these objections?
Objection One: ** Answ** Objection One: The cloning process causes animals to suffer
Fiester replies: involving technology, promises to improve efficiency rates and health outcomes.
The pain of the surrogate mother, is no more than a cat that donated a kidney would hurt. So
kidney implants are legal, than pet cloning should be justified as well
What are the three main objections given by critics of pet cloning? How does Feister reply to
these objections?
Objection Two: ** Answ** Objection Two: Pet cloning could have bad consequences for
unwanted pets! (The Anti-Cloning Case)
Fiester's Reply: So, then we should get rid of breeders, puppy farms, and pet farms. Cloning
would create far fewer animals than pet stores. Why should pet lover have greater duty? (of
unwanted pet)
What are the three main objections given by critics of pet cloning? How does Feister reply to
these objections?
Objection Three: ** Answ** Objection Three: Cloning companies are deceiving and
exploiting grieving pet owners
Fiester replies: Genetic Savings and Clone argues that they have an informed consent process
that educates clients about the environmental and in utero factors that influence personality and
behavior-maybe even physical characteristics. But whatever policies need to be put in place to
make sure the owner has realistic expectations, how cloning firms market pet cloning and
educate potential customers does not bear on the moral legitimacy of pet cloning itself. There is a
clear need to regulate this emerging industry to ensure truth in advertising, but that could be
achieved without eliminating the product.
, if the customers don't feel betrayed or deceived (and indeed, they do not) and are satisfied with
their investment and comforted by the clone's existence, then it is hard to get this psychological
concern going
The bereft pet owner might know full well that the clone will be nothing more than a genetic
twin, and the decision to clone might be merely an attempt to preserve something important from
the original animal, rather than resurrect it
How does Fiester argue that pet cloning is morally justified because of the consequences to
animals? (don't really get) ** Answ** Fiester argues that pet cloning may change common
views of the moral status of animals, encouraging people to view animals as having intrinsic
value, with unconditional worth, independent with their affects on humans.
How does Feister respond to the criticism that the dignity of the original pet is degraded by the
attempt to create a clone? ** Answ** Companion animal cloning will be seen as a tribute to
the value of the original animal. There are parents who desperately want to clone their lost
children.33 Pet owners, mirroring their feelings, are making a statement about both the animal's
immeasurable value and the level of loss and grief they feel at its death. Whatever one thinks of
human cloning, no one argues that the parents who request it don't assign the highest possible
worth to the deceased child; the sentiment to clone is a testimony to the parents' belief in the
infinite value of that unique person. If this becomes widely understood, the cloning-as-solace
interpretation may indeed win out.
For Aristotle what is the difference between intellectual and moral virtues? ** Answ**
Intellectual virtues: excellences of mind; acquired by inheritance and education.
Moral Virtues: acquired by repetition or practice
What sorts of intellectual virtues are there and how do people come to acquire them? **
Answ** Philosophical wisdom; practical wisdom: knowing how to live life and achieve goals.
How do people cultivate moral virtues?
What are the three main objections given by critics of pet cloning? How does Feister reply to
these objections?
Objection One: ** Answ** Objection One: The cloning process causes animals to suffer
Fiester replies: involving technology, promises to improve efficiency rates and health outcomes.
The pain of the surrogate mother, is no more than a cat that donated a kidney would hurt. So
kidney implants are legal, than pet cloning should be justified as well
What are the three main objections given by critics of pet cloning? How does Feister reply to
these objections?
Objection Two: ** Answ** Objection Two: Pet cloning could have bad consequences for
unwanted pets! (The Anti-Cloning Case)
Fiester's Reply: So, then we should get rid of breeders, puppy farms, and pet farms. Cloning
would create far fewer animals than pet stores. Why should pet lover have greater duty? (of
unwanted pet)
What are the three main objections given by critics of pet cloning? How does Feister reply to
these objections?
Objection Three: ** Answ** Objection Three: Cloning companies are deceiving and
exploiting grieving pet owners
Fiester replies: Genetic Savings and Clone argues that they have an informed consent process
that educates clients about the environmental and in utero factors that influence personality and
behavior-maybe even physical characteristics. But whatever policies need to be put in place to
make sure the owner has realistic expectations, how cloning firms market pet cloning and
educate potential customers does not bear on the moral legitimacy of pet cloning itself. There is a
clear need to regulate this emerging industry to ensure truth in advertising, but that could be
achieved without eliminating the product.
, if the customers don't feel betrayed or deceived (and indeed, they do not) and are satisfied with
their investment and comforted by the clone's existence, then it is hard to get this psychological
concern going
The bereft pet owner might know full well that the clone will be nothing more than a genetic
twin, and the decision to clone might be merely an attempt to preserve something important from
the original animal, rather than resurrect it
How does Fiester argue that pet cloning is morally justified because of the consequences to
animals? (don't really get) ** Answ** Fiester argues that pet cloning may change common
views of the moral status of animals, encouraging people to view animals as having intrinsic
value, with unconditional worth, independent with their affects on humans.
How does Feister respond to the criticism that the dignity of the original pet is degraded by the
attempt to create a clone? ** Answ** Companion animal cloning will be seen as a tribute to
the value of the original animal. There are parents who desperately want to clone their lost
children.33 Pet owners, mirroring their feelings, are making a statement about both the animal's
immeasurable value and the level of loss and grief they feel at its death. Whatever one thinks of
human cloning, no one argues that the parents who request it don't assign the highest possible
worth to the deceased child; the sentiment to clone is a testimony to the parents' belief in the
infinite value of that unique person. If this becomes widely understood, the cloning-as-solace
interpretation may indeed win out.
For Aristotle what is the difference between intellectual and moral virtues? ** Answ**
Intellectual virtues: excellences of mind; acquired by inheritance and education.
Moral Virtues: acquired by repetition or practice
What sorts of intellectual virtues are there and how do people come to acquire them? **
Answ** Philosophical wisdom; practical wisdom: knowing how to live life and achieve goals.
How do people cultivate moral virtues?
