Daniel: There are certain actions

Answer choices

1. A

   Trap1% picked this

   No one can be morally required to do something that is

   No Comment From Either Out of Scope: possible / impossible Neither person takes up the issue of whether you can be morally required to do something impossible.

   1%
2. B

   No Comment From Either12% picked this

   Some actions that are performed with the right motivations are not

   Daniel is saying in his 3rd sentence that some actions that are performed without the right motivations are not morally good. We don't actually know his stance on whether actions performed with the right motivations are or aren't guaranteed to be morally good. That's enough to eliminate the answer, but we also don't know Carrie's position on this. She thinks that all that matters to morally good is fulfilling a moral obligation. We don't know whether she would agree or disagree that sometimes people have the right motivation but don't fulfill a moral obligation (i.e. didn't perform a morally good action).

   12%
3. C

   Out of Scope7% picked this

   All actions that fulfill moral obligations are performed in order to

   Out of Scope: performed in order to fulfill Both Would Disagree Neither person uses the language of "intent". We do talk about "the right motivations" (motivation is synonym for intent), but we don't spell out what type of intent is "the right intent". If we assumed that Daniel was thinking "right motivations = fulfilling moral obligation because you want to fulfill the moral obligation", then both people would probably disagree with this claim. Since each person is speaking around the issue of whether or not people had "the right motivations" when they performed their potentially morally good action, it seems like both persons are allowing for the possibility that sometimes you're fulfilling a moral obligation accidentally or for selfish, not moral, reasons.

   7%
4. D

   Correct69% picked this

   An action performed with the wrong motivations cannot be

   Why this is right

   Daniel agrees; he says an action can't be morally good unless it's performed with the right intentions. not right intentions → not morally good morally good → right intentions (morally good -r-e-q-u-i-r-e-s-> right intent) Carrie disagrees; she says that the only requirement for a morally good action is that it fulfills the moral obligation. So she thinks that an action that fulfills a moral obligation, even if it's done with the wrong motivations, could still be morally good.

   Skill tested: Agree/Disagree · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.

   69%
5. E

   Too Strong for Either11% picked this

   If a person's motivations for acting are based on a sense of duty, then that person's

   This conditional is something we couldn't infer from either person: motivations based on duty → morally good Carrie's rule is fulfills moral obligation → morally good There might be a lot of overlap between fulfilling a moral obligation and being motivated by a sense of duty (that could be a sense of duty to your moral obligation). But there could be times where you're motivated by acting on a sense of duty even though you're not fulfilling a moral obligation. So Carrie would probably disagree with this. But we certainly can't derive from Daniel's thoughts that he agrees with this. He doesn't give any way of proving that something IS morally good.

   11%