Question
In one book, this philosopher discussed whether the Chancellor of the Exchequer would be killing the elderly by failing to raise old-age pensions. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this author of Causing Death and Saving Lives. This English philosopher made an early intervention on the ethics of gene editing in his 1984 book What Sort of People Should There Be?
ANSWER: Jonathan Glover
[10m] In Causing Death, Glover argues that side effects alone do not allow us to say that killing is worse than this act of omission. Philippa Foot used the notion of “fatal sequences” to argue that killing is worse than this omission.
ANSWER: letting die [or allowing someone to die]
[10e] Glover also cites Peter Singer’s argument that the reasons for saving a “Bengali whose name I shall never know” are the same as those requiring one to risk ruining their clothes in order to save a child from this fate.
ANSWER: drowning in a shallow pond
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Summary
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 13 | 16.92 | 92% | 77% | 0% |
Data
| SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| The Empire Bikes Back | Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | LMM's LLM MLM | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Lisan al-Quib | Les Missourables | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Punished "Venom" BHSU | The Jeam Team | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| The Dyatlov Passement incident | First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| BHSU B | The Oldest Men in the World | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| We Need New Names | when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| var merchants | Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |