Author Question: A basic argument made by Nathanson against Berns' argument is that Berns' view of the death penalty ... (Read 122 times)

leo leo · **on:** Jul 20, 2018

A basic argument made by Nathanson against Berns' argument is that Berns' view of the
death penalty

a. is a romanticized view that does not accurately reflect our actual practices of
execution.
b. is too soft-hearted: executions should be much more common than they are.
c. does not take account of major cultural and technological changes in the world.
d. fails to consider the effects that it has on the families of those executed.
e. fails to consider the effects of the death penalty on the families of crime victims.

Question 2

The problem of getting an ought from an is means

a) what you should do is determined by how you feel.
b) what you ought to do is often very difficult.
c) what people should do has no necessary connection to what they actually do.
d) what people like to do is actually what they in fact do.