Doctor: It is wrong

Answer choices

1. A

   Weak Premise Match5% picked this

   Medical researchers should never engage in any behavior that they know will cause

   This rule says: if you know behavior ? shouldn't do X X will cause people to suffer Does this rule apply to "keeping research confidential"? Is that a behavior that researchers will know will cause humans to suffer? No, they might suspect it could lead to suffering, but we haven't been told they know it will cause suffering. It's okay for the outcome of these rules to be stronger than what the conclusion needs, but it's not okay for the trigger of these rules to be stronger than what we know from the evidence.

   5%
2. B

   Bad Premise Match5% picked this

   If the most important moral principle is to prevent human suffering, then it is wrong for medical researchers

   The rule says most imp moral wrong to keep principle is ? research confidential preventing human suffering The right side matches the conclusion, but we weren't told in the evidence that "the most important moral principle is X", so there's no way for our evidence to trigger this rule.

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3. C

   Correct80% picked this

   Medical researchers should not keep information confidential if it is possible that sharing that information would prevent

   Why this is right

   This rule says: Possible sharing info shouldn't keep would prevent some ? info confidential unnecessary suffering Do we know that sharing info would possibly prevent some unnecessary suffering? Yes, we can basically trigger that. If they don't share, it will delay treatments, implying that if they did share, it would take comparatively less time. Since people would possibly suffer during the delay, sharing the info and getting treatments sooner could prevent some suffering by comparison.

   Skill tested: Principle-Strengthen · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.

   80%
4. D

   Weak Conclusion Match0% picked this

   Medical researchers should always attempt to develop effective medical treatments as rapidly as they can while fulfilling

   Given that we were told that failing to share confidential info can delay effective treatments, a principle that says we should try to get effective treatments asap would seemingly not want us to withhold confidential info. But the principle is more complicated: as fast as possible while fulfilling other moral obligations. That introduces some gray area, where maybe medical researchers are already getting effective treatments as rapidly as they can, given these competing concerns.

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5. E

   Trap8% picked this

   It is wrong for any company to ask its medical researchers to keep their research confidential, if failure to share the research might

   Bad Conclusion Match Principle for Companies, Not Researchers This principle governs the behavior of companies, but we're trying to justify an argument about how medical researchers should behave.

   8%