animals - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

Answer the following about philosophical insights that might be gained from interactions with the official Peter Singer chatbot at petersinger.ai, for 10 points each.

[10e] AI Peter suggests trying his recipes in order to better keep with the utilitarian principles of his book titled for the liberation of these beings. Singer argues for a set of rights for these beings, separate from human rights.

ANSWER: animals [accept animal rights or Animal Liberation]

[10m] When asked to write a question about himself, AI Peter writes a tossup cluing an essay titled for these events, “Affluence, and Morality.” Amartya Sen claimed these events have never happened in a functioning democracy.

ANSWER: famines [accept “Famine, Affluence, and Morality”]

[10h] When asked to criticize that essay, AI Peter raises the “objection” named for this property of utilitarianism. A Shelly Kagan paper that asks whether consequentialism has this property denies the idea of “supererogatory” (“super-uh-ROG-uh-tory”) acts.

ANSWER: demandingness [or demandingness objection or “Does Consequentialism Demand Too Much?”; accept answers describing that the moral philosophy is too demanding of its followers]

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Summary


California (North)	Main Site	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
California (South)	Main Site	Y	4	12.50	75%	50%	0%
Canada	Main Site	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Florida	Main Site	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Great Lakes	Main Site	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	9	15.56	89%	67%	0%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	8	17.50	100%	75%	0%
Northeast	Main Site	Y	5	8.00	60%	20%	0%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	4	20.00	100%	75%	25%
South Central	Main Site	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	7	12.86	86%	43%	0%
UK	Main Site	Y	12	16.67	100%	67%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	8	16.25	100%	63%	0%
Upstate NY	Main Site	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%

Data


Stanford B	Berkeley B	10	10	0	20
Berkeley C	Stanford A	10	10	0	20
Berkeley A	Berkeley D	10	10	0	20
UCLA B	UC Irvine	10	10	0	20
UCSD C	UCLA A	10	0	0	10
UCSD A	UC Santa Barbara	0	10	0	10
UBC B	Brock	10	10	0	20
Florida C	Central Florida B	10	0	0	10
Central Florida A	Florida A	10	10	0	20
Central Florida C	Florida B	10	0	0	10
CWRU A	Michigan State	10	0	0	10
Ohio State A	Michigan A	10	10	0	20
Ohio State C	Michigan B	10	0	0	10
CWRU B	Ohio State B	10	0	0	10
William and Mary	James Madison B	0	10	0	10
Liberty A	James Madison A	10	0	0	10
Virginia Tech A	NC State A	10	10	0	20
Liberty C	NC State B	10	0	0	10
North Carolina C	Liberty B	10	10	0	20
North Carolina B	South Carolina A	10	10	0	20
North Carolina A	South Carolina B	10	10	0	20
VCU	Duke	10	0	0	10
Virginia	Wake Forest	10	10	0	20
Chicago B	Northwestern D	10	10	0	20
Chicago C	Chicago E	10	0	0	10
Illinois A	Notre Dame B	10	10	0	20
Indiana C	Illinois B	10	10	0	20
Illinois C	Purdue A	10	10	0	20
Purdue B	Indiana B	10	0	0	10
Northwestern B	Northwestern C	10	10	0	20
Indiana A	Notre Dame A	10	10	0	20
Arizona State	UCSD B	10	0	0	10
Bowdoin A	Yale	0	0	0	0
Brown	Harvard A	10	10	0	20
Dartmouth A	Dartmouth B	10	0	0	10
Harvard B	Bowdoin B	0	0	0	0
Southern Connecticut State	Brandeis A	10	0	0	10
Minnesota A	Claremont	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech A	Missouri A	10	10	0	20
Carleton College	Missouri B	10	10	0	20
Washington A	Iowa State	10	0	0	10
Murray State A	Texas A&M A	10	0	0	10
Texas B	Texas A	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech C	Tennessee A	10	10	0	20
Alabama A	WashU B	10	0	0	10
WashU A	Kentucky	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech B	Louisville A	10	0	0	10
Mississipi State	Georgia Tech D	10	10	0	20
Alabama B	Sewanee	0	0	0	0
Louisville B	Vanderbilt B	10	0	0	10
Birmingham	Montpellier	10	10	0	20
Bristol	Cambridge B	10	0	0	10
Warwick A	Cambridge A	10	10	0	20
Cambridge C	City St. George's	10	10	0	20
Imperial C	Oxford B	10	0	0	10
UCL	LSE	10	10	0	20
Manchester	Edinburgh A	10	10	0	20
Warwick B	Oxford C	10	10	0	20
Southampton B	Cardiff	10	10	0	20
Edinburgh B	Durham	10	0	0	10
Oxford A	Imperial A	10	10	0	20
Imperial B	Southampton A	10	0	0	10
Catholic	Johns Hopkins B	10	0	0	10
Rutgers A	Maryland A	10	10	0	20
Georgetown	Rutgers B	10	10	0	20
Swarthmore	Columbia C	10	10	0	20
NYU B	Vassar	10	0	0	10
Columbia A	Maryland C	10	10	0	20
Cornell B	Binghamton B	10	10	0	20
Penn State	Cornell C	10	10	0	20
Cornell A	RIT	10	10	0	20
Rochester	Binghamton A	10	0	0	10
Maryland B	Columbia B	10	0	0	10
John Jay	NYU C	10	10	0	20