ETHICS IN AMERICA DSST EXAM 2024-2025
ETHICS IN AMERICA DSST EXAM 2024-
2025 ACTUAL EXAM 130 QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
Beneficience -Correct Answer ✔The duty to help others in need.
Non-maleficience -Correct Answer ✔The duty to not harm others. This includes acts
committed or omitted. One example would be if a doctor forgot to give a patient the
correct care.
That they are self-evident. He called them prima facie duties. -Correct Answer ✔What
did WD Ross believe about certain basic moral principles?
Problem with prima facie duties -Correct Answer ✔They may not be self-evident to
those who are intellectually immature or those who haven't thought about it enough.
Double-effect principle -Correct Answer ✔From Thomas Aquinas, and is used to
describe situations where harm is induced to cause good. It is controversial, especially
among utilitarians.
We should help others in danger -Correct Answer ✔If there is little risk and even if it is
not in our self-interest.
Joel Feinberg -Correct Answer ✔He wrote The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law, which
used 4 principles to determine legitimacy of government intervention in individual
freedom.
The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law -Correct Answer ✔1. The Harm Principle
(originally from John Stuart Mill)
2. The Offence Principle
3. Paternalism
4. Legal Moralism
Paternalism -Correct Answer ✔Having a person or the government do what they think is
best for you, even if it goes against your wishes. Feinberg rejected this hard, where
competent adults would have their liberty restricted to prevent them from harming
themselves.
Offense Principle -Correct Answer ✔Governments are allowed to prohibit conduct that
seriously offends others.
ETHICS IN AMERICA DSST EXAM 2024-2025
, ETHICS IN AMERICA DSST EXAM 2024-2025
Legal Moralism -Correct Answer ✔It allows the prohibition of immoral behavior, even if
nobody is harmed or offended. One example would be a community banning
homosexual acts.
Legal Pluralism -Correct Answer ✔Is the existence of multiple legal systems within one
(human) population and/or geographic area.
Moral pluralism -Correct Answer ✔Is the assumption there are moral truths, but that
they do not form a body of coherent and consistent truths as those found in the
sciences or mathematic approach.
Through the virtue of an implied contract. This is common sense morality. -Correct
Answer ✔Why should parents take care of their kids?
The state will intervene & the child no longer owes the parent a duty of obedience. -
Correct Answer ✔What happens if the parent doesn't act in the best interests of the
child?
That are close to us -Correct Answer ✔We have a duty of special concern to those...?
Best interest principle -Correct Answer ✔When educators, judges, and doctors deal with
children, they should follow this...
Beneficence, Non-maleficence, justice, and autonomy -Correct Answer ✔According to
the medical profession, what are the 4 main guiding ethical principles derived from
common morality?
Informed consent -Correct Answer ✔Doctors have to inform patients of medical
risks/benefits who then make an informed decision which signifies their..?
Health professionals -Correct Answer ✔Owe their patients a duty of care..?
Issues business ethics describe -Correct Answer ✔Corporate governance, accurate
accounting and audits, fair labor practices and environmental management.
Fair labor practices -Correct Answer ✔Are essential to ensure that workers are provided
with a safe and humane working environment and compensated with a fair wage.
Environmental sustainability -Correct Answer ✔Is development that meets the needs of
the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet
their own needs.
Economic reasons -Correct Answer ✔Many business and political leaders oppose
environmental sustainability for...?
ETHICS IN AMERICA DSST EXAM 2024-2025
ETHICS IN AMERICA DSST EXAM 2024-
2025 ACTUAL EXAM 130 QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
Beneficience -Correct Answer ✔The duty to help others in need.
Non-maleficience -Correct Answer ✔The duty to not harm others. This includes acts
committed or omitted. One example would be if a doctor forgot to give a patient the
correct care.
That they are self-evident. He called them prima facie duties. -Correct Answer ✔What
did WD Ross believe about certain basic moral principles?
Problem with prima facie duties -Correct Answer ✔They may not be self-evident to
those who are intellectually immature or those who haven't thought about it enough.
Double-effect principle -Correct Answer ✔From Thomas Aquinas, and is used to
describe situations where harm is induced to cause good. It is controversial, especially
among utilitarians.
We should help others in danger -Correct Answer ✔If there is little risk and even if it is
not in our self-interest.
Joel Feinberg -Correct Answer ✔He wrote The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law, which
used 4 principles to determine legitimacy of government intervention in individual
freedom.
The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law -Correct Answer ✔1. The Harm Principle
(originally from John Stuart Mill)
2. The Offence Principle
3. Paternalism
4. Legal Moralism
Paternalism -Correct Answer ✔Having a person or the government do what they think is
best for you, even if it goes against your wishes. Feinberg rejected this hard, where
competent adults would have their liberty restricted to prevent them from harming
themselves.
Offense Principle -Correct Answer ✔Governments are allowed to prohibit conduct that
seriously offends others.
ETHICS IN AMERICA DSST EXAM 2024-2025
, ETHICS IN AMERICA DSST EXAM 2024-2025
Legal Moralism -Correct Answer ✔It allows the prohibition of immoral behavior, even if
nobody is harmed or offended. One example would be a community banning
homosexual acts.
Legal Pluralism -Correct Answer ✔Is the existence of multiple legal systems within one
(human) population and/or geographic area.
Moral pluralism -Correct Answer ✔Is the assumption there are moral truths, but that
they do not form a body of coherent and consistent truths as those found in the
sciences or mathematic approach.
Through the virtue of an implied contract. This is common sense morality. -Correct
Answer ✔Why should parents take care of their kids?
The state will intervene & the child no longer owes the parent a duty of obedience. -
Correct Answer ✔What happens if the parent doesn't act in the best interests of the
child?
That are close to us -Correct Answer ✔We have a duty of special concern to those...?
Best interest principle -Correct Answer ✔When educators, judges, and doctors deal with
children, they should follow this...
Beneficence, Non-maleficence, justice, and autonomy -Correct Answer ✔According to
the medical profession, what are the 4 main guiding ethical principles derived from
common morality?
Informed consent -Correct Answer ✔Doctors have to inform patients of medical
risks/benefits who then make an informed decision which signifies their..?
Health professionals -Correct Answer ✔Owe their patients a duty of care..?
Issues business ethics describe -Correct Answer ✔Corporate governance, accurate
accounting and audits, fair labor practices and environmental management.
Fair labor practices -Correct Answer ✔Are essential to ensure that workers are provided
with a safe and humane working environment and compensated with a fair wage.
Environmental sustainability -Correct Answer ✔Is development that meets the needs of
the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet
their own needs.
Economic reasons -Correct Answer ✔Many business and political leaders oppose
environmental sustainability for...?
ETHICS IN AMERICA DSST EXAM 2024-2025
