Wrong actions?

Here are some actions thought to be wrong in some cultures and thought to be permissible in others (see IP3 490ab):


For each of these actions try to think of an argument (a sound, non-question-begging, argument) for the conclusion that that action is morally wrong or is morally permissible.

Here's an example:

  1. If some behavior does not harm anyone, then that behavior is morally permissible.
  2. Public nakedness does not harm anyone.
  3. Therefore, public nakedness is morally permissible. (By a variation on modus ponens)


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Richard Lee, rlee@uark.edu, last modified: 14 September 2004