Side question: This argument is flawed, right? Evan states that his vegetarianism is based on the belief that it is immoral to inflict pain on animals for food. Then, he accuses vegetarians of moral inconsistency for consuming seafood, reasoning that if their rationale for vegetarianism was to avoid the moral wrong of inflicting needless suffering on other animals, then they should not exclude sea animals.
He expands his definition of pain to include needless suffering, and doesn't actually address the question of whether or not sea animals can experience pain.
For this question specifically, it helped me to summarize the overall principle of the stimulus in a couple of words and then to compare that summary to the answer choices to see which of the answer choices matches my summary the best. I summarized the stimulus by saying something like "if I am uncertain, then I should do the extra step just in case" and that led me to question A. This technique may help with the more "principle" based flaw questions.
Would the principle that Evan critiqued not be ONLY the lack of evidence = no evidence part of the stim? Why is Evans's response to be on the side of caution also in the answer choices if that is his response to the principle, not the principle in and of itself?
@isaduquearango I think the whole principle is captured by the idea of the precautionary principle, which states that in the absence of certainty (e.g. concrete evidence), one should err on the side of caution. Evan is not responding to a principle, he is critiquing vegetarians who eat seafood and his criticism illustrates a principle.
This whole question kind of reminded me of the argument form of Pascal's Wager, a philosophical argument/thought experiment. It's similar but not identical in form to this vegetarian argument.
The principle I got out of this (and from Pascal's Wager) is something like this: You should ere on the side of of caution about things that you can't fully know. Doing so would reduce the [potential and unknown] harm that your actions--based on your beliefs--cause.
9 minutes of prompt analysis only to be immediately told the answer and not be given a chance to apply what we learned. This is by far one of the worst aspects of 7Sage.
Know the currents, understand the depths, and observe the movement of each fin. In the realm of strategy, as in the vast ocean, mastery lies not in catching fish, but in the art of swimming with them - Sun Tzu
JY always makes me laughed. With the take time and tell me why "D" is not the right answer. Ok, it is not even an argument. Haha definitely helps make learning fun! Small laughs that stick.
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Side question: This argument is flawed, right? Evan states that his vegetarianism is based on the belief that it is immoral to inflict pain on animals for food. Then, he accuses vegetarians of moral inconsistency for consuming seafood, reasoning that if their rationale for vegetarianism was to avoid the moral wrong of inflicting needless suffering on other animals, then they should not exclude sea animals.
He expands his definition of pain to include needless suffering, and doesn't actually address the question of whether or not sea animals can experience pain.
For this question specifically, it helped me to summarize the overall principle of the stimulus in a couple of words and then to compare that summary to the answer choices to see which of the answer choices matches my summary the best. I summarized the stimulus by saying something like "if I am uncertain, then I should do the extra step just in case" and that led me to question A. This technique may help with the more "principle" based flaw questions.
Me, a pescetarian, thinking I was reading this stimulus, but really, the stimulus read me...
Would the principle that Evan critiqued not be ONLY the lack of evidence = no evidence part of the stim? Why is Evans's response to be on the side of caution also in the answer choices if that is his response to the principle, not the principle in and of itself?
@isaduquearango I think the whole principle is captured by the idea of the precautionary principle, which states that in the absence of certainty (e.g. concrete evidence), one should err on the side of caution. Evan is not responding to a principle, he is critiquing vegetarians who eat seafood and his criticism illustrates a principle.
This whole question kind of reminded me of the argument form of Pascal's Wager, a philosophical argument/thought experiment. It's similar but not identical in form to this vegetarian argument.
The principle I got out of this (and from Pascal's Wager) is something like this: You should ere on the side of of caution about things that you can't fully know. Doing so would reduce the [potential and unknown] harm that your actions--based on your beliefs--cause.
3:06 very specific, very detailed, very mindful, very cutesy, very demure
These analogy questions are probably the toughest ones I think.
Argument parts are definitely my kryptonite.
#help in the new version which I was reccomended to do, there is no principle section?
https://7sage.com/lesson/principle-theory-and-approach/
Is another shallow dip reason to get rid of E that there was no uncertainty in the reasoning?
9 minutes of prompt analysis only to be immediately told the answer and not be given a chance to apply what we learned. This is by far one of the worst aspects of 7Sage.
you can pause the vid or whatever you want. I solve these without watching first
@cpdevill307 if you click "show question" at the top below the title of the lesson you can do the question without seeing the answer first.
“It’s okay to eat fish cuz they don’t have any feelings."
Nirvana.
Know the currents, understand the depths, and observe the movement of each fin. In the realm of strategy, as in the vast ocean, mastery lies not in catching fish, but in the art of swimming with them - Sun Tzu
I too, am locked in, so to speak.
JY always makes me laughed. With the take time and tell me why "D" is not the right answer. Ok, it is not even an argument. Haha definitely helps make learning fun! Small laughs that stick.
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