Zachary: One would have to be blind to the reality of moral obligation

Lengthy but not that tough once you understand, though it took me about 4 mins to solve.

[quote="Bunuel"]Zachary: One would have to be blind to the reality of moral obligation to deny that people who believe a course of action to be morally obligatory for them have both the right and the duty to pursue that action, and that no one else has any right to stop them from doing so. - Not relevant as per me.

Cynthia: But imagine an artist who feels morally obliged to do whatever she can to prevent works of art from being destroyed confronting a morally committed antipornography demonstrator engaged in destroying artworks he deems pornographic. According to your principle that artist has, simultaneously, both the right and the duty to stop the destruction and no right whatsoever to stop it. - Cynthia talks about two kinds of people. 1) Those who find something wrong with some specific thing & protest. 2) Those who hold a greater responsibility to protect that thing. - In simple terms, one in favor, the other is against, but both working & morally committed.

Which one of the following, if substituted for the scenario invoked by Cynthia, would preserve the force of her argument? - Question is, find an argument that can replace the one given by Cynthia with the same conclusion.


(A) a medical researcher who feels a moral obligation not to claim sole credit for work that was performed in part by someone else confronting another researcher who feels no such moral obligation - Second researcher not morally committed.

(B) a manufacturer who feels a moral obligation to recall potentially dangerous products confronting a consumer advocate who feels morally obliged to expose product defects - Both morally committed, but on the same side.

(C) an investment banker who believes that governments are morally obliged to regulate major industries confronting an investment banker who holds that governments have a moral obligation not to interfere with market forces - Both morally committed, on opposite sides, but not working.

(D) an architect who feels a moral obligation to design only energy-efficient buildings confronting, as a potential client, a corporation that believes its primary moral obligation is to maximize shareholder profits - Both committed, but on different sides not opposite.

(E) a health inspector who feels morally obliged to enforce restrictions on the number of cats a householder may keep confronting a householder who, feeling morally obliged to keep every stray that comes along, has over twice that number of cats - Both working, on opposite sides & morally committed.Correct Answer.
E