QUESTION1 Cohen thinks We are permitted to perform medical experiments on animal

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QUESTION1 Cohen thinks We are permitted to perform medical experiments on animals because they cannot feel pain to the same degree that humans can We are sometimes permitted to perform medical experiments on animals O We are obligated to perform medical experiments on animals, whatever it takes o we are obligated to perform medical experiments on animals but not unnecessarily harm them QUESTION 2 Regan is against O Eating animals Experimenting on animals O Hunting animals All of these QUESTION 3 Kant thinks your reason for harming an animal is relevant to whether it is wrong to harm it. True O False

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Question 1

According to Cohen animals have no moral rights, hence, its permissable to use them for medical research. But humans have obligations towards them, hence, while using them for biomedical experiments we should not cause them severe distress and make them suffer unnecessarily.

Answer. Option 4. We are obligated to perform medical experiments on animals but not unnecessarily harm them.

Question 2

Regan states that animals have inherent value similar to human beings hence, they should be treated with equality and they have equal moral rights like that of human beings. Hence, they should not be killed for food, hunted, or used for medical research and experiments.

Answer. Option 4. All of these.

Question 3

Kant's ethical theory is based on rationalism. He favors moral rational thinking for every action. Though he has not supported animal rights directly, but, he states a rational decision for harming animals, that is if rationality does not supports harming animals being cruel to then we ought not harm and be cruel to them.

Answer. True.

Question 4

Kant's ethical theory is of categorical imperative, that is a moral principles ought be followed at all times despite it consequences. He do not directly support animal rights, causing harm to any life form is wrong at all times, hence, causing harm and being cruel to animals is ethically incorrect.

Answer. Option 4. All of these.

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