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In the context of liberty rights, libertarians like John Locke and Ayn Rand are most likely to agree with which of the following arguments?

A) Minimal government would be the death of the state, because without proper governance, the poor, infirm, and weak will starve while the wealthy thrive.
B) Big corporations require government oversight to ensure that they do not exploit their workers.
C) Taxes on industrial products should be used to improve national health care and welfare systems for the poor.
D) Governments and other authorities of the state should not be allowed to control what an individual does with his or her land.

E) A) and B)
F) B) and D)

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Which of the following is the best example of a legitimate interest?

A) refusing to hire someone who is gay because many people find homosexuality offensive
B) any action which is legal or not forbidden by law
C) publishing an article on being gay, which many people find offensive, in the school newspaper
D) any action that benefits us because we have the right to do whatever we want to do

E) All of the above
F) None of the above

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A cultural relativist most likely would base a claim of rights on:

The "Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions of the First Woman's Rights Convention" stated that women ought to have the legal right to:

In the context of moral rights, _____ entails the right to receive primary social goods such as adequate nutrition, housing, education, and police and fire protection.

Naomi believes that the state does not have a duty to provide health care to its citizens. At the same time, she thinks it is good (though not required) for the state to provide health care in cases of real need, such as through Medicaid. Naomi regards health care for the poor as:

Unlike John Locke and Ayn Rand, Karl Marx argued that people's rights exist as part of:

According to natural rights ethicists, rights stem from:

In the moral philosophies of John Locke and Thomas Hobbes, a "state of nature" is:

Which of the following people would be most likely to support legislation requiring multinational logging and mining corporations in the Amazon to reimburse or return lands to the indigenous people?

In the context of natural rights, liberalism is:

In Buddhism, rights _____.

Identify the person who said each of the following. -"The alternative language [of "rights of the poor"] represents a critical approach to the laissez-faire liberal doctrine to the effect that our society enjoys an equality that in fact does not exist."

A liberty right is the right to:

Identify the person who said each of the following. -"The principle of Man's individual rights represented the extension of morality into the social system-as a limitation on the power of the state, as man's protection against the brute force of the collective, as the subordination of might to right. The United States was the first moral society in history."

Identify the document that states: "...the people of the United Nations have in the Charter reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal rights of men and women and have determined to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom…"

Deontologists and natural law ethicists believe that rights:

According to John Locke, civil laws are needed for:

Identify the person who said each of the following. -"The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges everyone; and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind who will but consult it, that, being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions."

Which of the following was inspired by natural rights ethics?