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Mary, a veterinary student, has been assigned an experiment [#permalink]
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Mary, a veterinary student, has been assigned an experiment in mammalian physiology that would require her to take a healthy, anesthetized dog and subject it to a drastic blood loss in order to observe the physiological consequences of shock. The dog would neither regain consciousness nor survive the experiment. Mary decides not to do this assignment.
Mary’s decision most closely accords with which one of the following principles?
(A) All other things being equal, gratuitously causing any animal to suffer pain is unjustified.
(B) Taking the life of an animal is not justifiable unless doing so would immediately assist in saving several animal lives or in protecting the health of a person.
(C) The only sufficient justification for experimenting on animals is that future animal suffering is thereby prevented.
(D) Practicing veterinarians have a professional obligation to strive to prevent the unnecessary death of an animal except in cases of severely ill or injured animals whose prospects for recovery are dim.
(E) No one is ever justified in acting with the sole intention of causing the death of a living thing, be it animal or human.
Please explain this....
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I ll take B
A, I don't understand the word" gratuitously ". Hence I avoided 
C is dead wrong. SHe should do it if she follow such principle.
D Unrelated
E is too strong.
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Re: CR-Veterinary student [#permalink]
07 Dec 2006, 05:29
I will go with D.
vineetgupta wrote: Mary, a veterinary student, has been assigned an experiment in mammalian physiology that would require her to take a healthy, anesthetized dog and subject it to a drastic blood loss in order to observe the physiological consequences of shock. The dog would neither regain consciousness nor survive the experiment. Mary decides not to do this assignment.
Mary’s decision most closely accords with which one of the following principles?
(A) All other things being equal, gratuitously causing any animal to suffer pain is unjustified.
Not just pain here, also death.
(B) Taking the life of an animal is not justifiable unless doing so would immediately assist in saving several animal lives or in protecting the health of a person.
We don't know if Mary thinks it is wrong to take the life of an animal, period.(C) The only sufficient justification for experimenting on animals is that future animal suffering is thereby prevented.
If she thought this, she would have conducted the experiment.
(D) Practicing veterinarians have a professional obligation to strive to prevent the unnecessary death of an animal except in cases of severely ill or injured animals whose prospects for recovery are dim.
Although Mary is not a practicing vet, the question only asks what her decision (making) closely resembles.
(E) No one is ever justified in acting with the sole intention of causing the death of a living thing, be it animal or human.
Death is not the sole intention in this case.
Please explain this....
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Re: CR-Veterinary student [#permalink]
07 Dec 2006, 10:08
hsampath wrote: I will go with D. vineetgupta wrote: Mary, a veterinary student, has been assigned an experiment in mammalian physiology that would require her to take a healthy, anesthetized dog and subject it to a drastic blood loss in order to observe the physiological consequences of shock. The dog would neither regain consciousness nor survive the experiment. Mary decides not to do this assignment.
Mary’s decision most closely accords with which one of the following principles?
(A) All other things being equal, gratuitously causing any animal to suffer pain is unjustified.
Not just pain here, also death.
(B) Taking the life of an animal is not justifiable unless doing so would immediately assist in saving several animal lives or in protecting the health of a person.
We don't know if Mary thinks it is wrong to take the life of an animal, period.(C) The only sufficient justification for experimenting on animals is that future animal suffering is thereby prevented.
If she thought this, she would have conducted the experiment.
(D) Practicing veterinarians have a professional obligation to strive to prevent the unnecessary death of an animal except in cases of severely ill or injured animals whose prospects for recovery are dim.
Although Mary is not a practicing vet, the question only asks what her decision (making) closely resembles.
(E) No one is ever justified in acting with the sole intention of causing the death of a living thing, be it animal or human.
Death is not the sole intention in this case.
Please explain this.... It's a tough one. Author decides the answer.
IMHO, B should be the most relevant one.
Veter. Student asked to take a life of an animal or pet dog... so his decision matches with B.
D talks about veterinarians practice , policies and more. And it talks about
already injured or severely suffering animal .... Not talking life of an healthy pet animal.
So B is my answer on the real test
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Re: CR-Veterinary student [#permalink]
07 Dec 2006, 16:30
D sounded right at 1st but then realized Mary is a student, not a
practicing veterinarian.
B.
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Thanks the OA is B....
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