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Which of the following moral theories holds that when allocating limited supplies of goods, such as donor organs, considerations such as talent, intelligence, age, and social worth are morally irrelevant?
 
  a) Utilitarian
  b) Kantian
  c) Paternalism
  d) Rawlsian

Question 2

Annas argued that a charity approach to organ procurement was demeaning based on what rationale?
 
  a) A charity approach to organ procurement is much worse than the market approach and thus, unlike the latter, is intolerable.
  b) A charity approach to organ procurement puts a very low value on both individual rights and equality and fairness.
  c) Requiring the less financially fortunate to make public appeals for funding amounts to rationing by financial ability and thus to believing that a price can be placed on human life.
  d) Requiring the less financially fortunate to make public appeals for funding makes such persons beholden to those who fund their medical procedures.



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Answer to Question 1

b) Kantian

Answer to Question 2

c) Requiring the less financially fortunate to make public appeals for funding amounts to rationing by financial ability and thus to believing that a price can be placed on human life.



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