Shafer Landau De Marneffe And Huemer Questionnaire

Questions Below:

1. Someone who supports what Shafer-Landau calls “The Efficiency Argument” claims that

a) Criminal punishment for drug use is the most efficient means of reducing them.
b) Recreational drug use is not the most efficient way to experience personal pleasure.
c) Criminal punishment for drug use is not the most efficient means of reducing them.
d) Recreational drug uses the most efficient way to experience personal pleasure.

2. Which of the following arguments described by Shafer-Landau is not an argument for the legalization of drug use?
a) The Right Argument
b) The Paternalism Argument
c) The Efficiency Argument
d) There is no argument here that is not an argument for the legalization of drug use.

3. Which of the following is a premise in what Shafer-Landau calls “The Right Argument”?
a) All people have a moral right to live in a drug-free society.
b) In a few rare cases, people have a moral right to take drugs.
c) In most cases, people have a moral right to live in drug-free society.
d) In most cases, people have a moral right to take drugs.

4. According to people who accept what Shafer-Landau calls “The Social Argument”?
a) Drug use, drug manufacturing, and drug sale should all be prohibited by law.
b) Drug use, drug manufacturing, and drug sale should all be allowed by the law.
c) Drug manufacture and sale should be allowed by the law, but drug use should be illegal.
d) Drug use should be allowed by the law, but drug manufacture and sale ought to be prohibited by law.

5. Which of the following premises support the claim that laws criminalizing drug manufacture and distribution greatly reduce social harm and do not violate anyone’s right?
a) Prohibiting manufacture and distribution will reduce drug supply. Reducing drug supply will reduce drug use. Reducing drug use will reduce many harms.
b) People do not have a moral to make or sell drugs.
c) Prohibiting drug manufacture and distribution does not violate anyone’s right to use drugs, since people will still be able to get drugs (albeit with more difficulty) from illegal sources.
d) All of the above.

6. Which of following arguments described by Shafer-Landau is an argument for making recreational drug use legal?
a) The Paternalism Argument
b) The Rights Argument
c) The Harm to Others Argument
d) None of the above

7. De Marneffe thinks that a law _______ would violate people’s rights.
a) Punishing the use of cocaine
b) Banning the manufacture of cocaine
c) Banning the sale of alcohol
d) Punishing the manufacture of tobacco

8. According to De Marneffe, right of self-sovereignty is the right to
a) Control your own mind and body
b) Vote in an election
c) Own and use property
d) Pursue happiness

9. De Marneffe argues that laws that prohibit people from using recreational drugs should be
a) Strengthened
b) More consistently enforced
c) Kept but weakened
d) Abolished

10. De Marneffe maintains that the choice to manufacture or sell drugs
a) Should be legal
b) Should be illegal
c) Does not involve an important form of control over one’s own mind or body
d) Both B and C

11. In Huemer’s article, what is the case involving Howard supposed to show?
a) Drug use is not very harmful
b) Many of the harms caused by drug use are not the sort of things for which we should punish people
c) Drug use is harmful only to users, not to others
d) Drug use can be beneficial in some instances.

12. In response to the argument that drugs should be prohibited because they harm users, Huemer
a) Denies that drugs are harmful
b) Argues that the harms of drug use are outweighed by the positive effects
c) Points out that we do not punish a number of behaviors that are self-destructive
d) None of the above

13. Under what conditions does Huemer think that the government should prohibit people from doing things that harm themselves?
a) When the action diminishes the person’s ability to plan for the future
b) When the action damages the person’s moral character
c) When the action diminishes the persons’s quality of life
d) None of the above

14. Which of the following does Huemer think should be legal?
a) Using a drug that corrodes one’s sense of sympathy and duty
b) Driving a car while using a drug that impairs one’s ability to do so
c) Using a drug while pregnant that is harmful to fetuses
d) None of the above

15. How does Huemer respond to the claim of that drug use harms third parties?
a) He claims that we should not prohibit all behavior that harms third parties
b) He allows that certain restrictions should be placed on what one may do while under the influence of drugs
c) He claims that we may justly prohibit behavior that harms third parties, but only where the harm in question amounts to a violation of these third parties’ rights. And in most cases, he says, drug use does not result in the violation of third parties’ rights
d) All of the above

16. The kind of paternalism Goodin endorses is restricted to forcing people to
a) Realize objectively good values
b) Realize the values their parents wish for them
c) Realize their own subjectively held values
d) Realize the values that the people imposing the paternalistic measures hold

17. The kind of paternalism Goodin endorses encompasses
a) Only the big decisions in people’s lives
b) Any decision a person makes that might have the slightest impact on his or her health
c) Only the small decisions in people’s lives
d) Any decision a person makes which might in the slightest way affect his or her education

18. On Goodin’s view, which of the following would be true in an ideal case of paternalism?
a) Public officials interfere in both small and large decisions in a person’s life
b) Public officials override your preferences with objectively better preferences
c) Public officials will better respect your own preference than you would have done
d) Public officials override your preferences with their own preferences for how you should live

19. According to Goodin, which of the following is among the features that a preference must have, if it is to be off-limits from paternalistic interference by the government?
a) The preference must not be based on false information
b) The preference must settled
c) The preference must not be due to unconscious outside influences which bypass one’s judgement
d) All of the above

20. According to Goodin, which of the following options describes a “settled” preference?
a) It is a temporary phase
b) It is limited to a specific period in your life
c) It is something you might change your mind about later
d) None of the above

21. According to Goodin, which of the following eventually came to be Rose Cipollone’s preferred preference?
a) The preference to smoke
b) The preference not to smoke
c) The preference to prefer to smoke
d) None of the above

22. According to Goodin, which of the following might be a source of preferences that were not actually Rose Cipollone’s own preferences?
a) Subliminal suggestion
b) Misleading advertisements
c) Pictures of movie stars smoking
d) All of the above