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Which is NOT an objection against proportionalism?
{ 1 } - It essentially specifies the morality of an act by its moral object.
{ 2 } - Its premoral calculus of consequences reduces moral judgment to technological rather than ethical judgment.
{ 3 } - It is self-contradictory because it bases moral judgment on weighing premoral values, but it cannot weigh them without making a moral judgment.
{ 4 } - It is impractical and arbitrary because it depends entirely on weighing consequences of an action, which are infinite and unpredictable.
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Which is NOT an objection against proportionalism?
{ 1 } - It essentially specifies the morality of an act by its moral object.
{ 2 } - Its premoral calculus of consequences reduces moral judgment to technological rather than ethical judgment.
{ 3 } - It is self-contradictory because it bases moral judgment on weighing premoral values, but it cannot weigh them without making a moral judgment.
{ 4 } - It is impractical and arbitrary because it depends entirely on weighing consequences of an action, which are infinite and unpredictable.
That is exactly what it does not do.
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Which is NOT an objection against proportionalism?
{ 1 } - It essentially specifies the morality of an act by its moral object.
{ 2 } - Its premoral calculus of consequences reduces moral judgment to technological rather than ethical judgment.
{ 3 } - It is self-contradictory because it bases moral judgment on weighing premoral values, but it cannot weigh them without making a moral judgment.
{ 4 } - It is impractical and arbitrary because it depends entirely on weighing consequences of an action, which are infinite and unpredictable.
See p. 164.
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Which is NOT an objection against proportionalism?
{ 1 } - It essentially specifies the morality of an act by its moral object.
{ 2 } - Its premoral calculus of consequences reduces moral judgment to technological rather than ethical judgment.
{ 3 } - It is self-contradictory because it bases moral judgment on weighing premoral values, but it cannot weigh them without making a moral judgment.
{ 4 } - It is impractical and arbitrary because it depends entirely on weighing consequences of an action, which are infinite and unpredictable.
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Which is NOT an objection against proportionalism?
{ 1 } - It essentially specifies the morality of an act by its moral object.
{ 2 } - Its premoral calculus of consequences reduces moral judgment to technological rather than ethical judgment.
{ 3 } - It is self-contradictory because it bases moral judgment on weighing premoral values, but it cannot weigh them without making a moral judgment.
{ 4 } - It is impractical and arbitrary because it depends entirely on weighing consequences of an action, which are infinite and unpredictable.
See p. 163.
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