Q15 - Which one of the following

[Raiderblue17]

Ok so the argument Cynthia proposes involves 2 people who are BOTH morally obliged to do a job, that pretty much contradicts each other.

Her example: Preserving Art v. Destroying Pronographic art

SO here is my reasoning I would LOVE input

A: Both don't share a moral obligation
B: They actually don't disagree, they're working for the same cause
C: Both not morally obligated
D: Not same subjects: Energy Efficiency v. maximum profits
E: 2 people both morally obliged to do something (Save cats v. make sure people don't have too many cats)

Is this kinda where I should be going?

[demetri.blaisdell]

This is exactly where you should be going! There might be room to tighten up your explanations for a few of the wrong answers, however. This is an unusual question stem but I think you've handled it very well. It looks like a matching question to me so I'll attack it like that.

What would our checklist be?

We're looking for two people who are morally committed to opposing actions (exactly what you have). A moral obligation to create art vs. a moral obligation to destroy it.

(E) gives us exactly that: a moral obligation to restrict cats pitted against a moral obligation to collect them.

(A) is clearly not a match: the 2nd researcher has no moral obligation.

(B) has two moral obligations, but are they in conflict? Just what you said.

(C) has a detail distortion. Both have opinions about the moral obligations of government, but we don't hear about their personal moral obligations.

(D) also misses the conflict. We don't know if these two things are in opposition.

Very nice job with a tough question. Let me know if you disagree with any of my explanations for wrong answer choices or have any other questions.

Demetri