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    1. The student discusses how their feelings affect their moral judgments. They state that their feelings do not directly determine their decisions but may inform them. They try to make choices based on long-term consequences rather than overwhelming emotions. 2. They argue that cultural relativism is true based on the premise that different cultures have dramatically different moral values and judgments. They provide the example of views on eating cow meat in India. 3. The student believes it is always immoral to believe a claim without evidence as it can spread negativity, hate, and negatively impact people's lives through false accusations. They think people should research claims and find evidence to back them up or deny them.

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    1. The student discusses how their feelings affect their moral judgments. They state that their feelings do not directly determine their decisions but may inform them. They try to make choices based on long-term consequences rather than overwhelming emotions. 2. They argue that cultural relativism is true based on the premise that different cultures have dramatically different moral values and judgments. They provide the example of views on eating cow meat in India. 3. The student believes it is always immoral to believe a claim without evidence as it can spread negativity, hate, and negatively impact people's lives through false accusations. They think people should research claims and find evidence to back them up or deny them.

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    Juhi Shah

    Professor Winogora

    Phi 205-020-Moral Choice

    11 July 2019

    Homework Assignment

    1. How do your feelings affect moral judgments you make? Do the determine your

    judgments? Do they inform them? If so, how?

    My feelings most of the times do not directly the moral decisions I have to make.

    For example, if I have to make a decision that is totally against my feelings but is the

    right decision to make when thinking morally, I will continue to make the choice that is

    morally right but feel at unease while performing the decision. Most of the time, my

    decisions are not determined by my feelings, as I take my time to think about my

    decisions, and how they will be affecting the people who are around me, and what the

    results can be over a long period of time. Sometimes however my feelings may become

    so overwhelming and powerful that may cause me to make a decision which may not be

    morally right and regret it later, when the emotion is gone. For example, I am not against

    abortion it should be woman’s choice although emotionally I hesitate to kill an unborn

    child, but if a women’s health is on urge, it would be important for me to keep in mind

    that my emotional feelings will not be able to change my moral judgment.

    2. If you travelled the world and saw that cultures differ dramatically in their moral

    judgement, would you conclude from this evidence that cultural relativism was true? why

    or why not?

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    From this scenario it can concluded that cultural relativism was true. If culture

    differs dramatically it can affect the persons judgement because it might be right for one

    culture to follow some ritual, but for someone else it can be morally and culturally wrong

    thing to do. “Many Hindus, who form about 80 percent of India’s population, consider

    cows sacred”. (Schultz). Kai Schultz in his article “Murders of Religious Minorities” in

    New York times explains how cultural relativism plays a great role in some parts of the

    nation. As Schultz mentioned cow is a sacred animal according to Hindu religion, but for

    other religions it is morally and culturally right to eat cow meat and kill cows. This

    initially led to a fight between two culturally different communities. Therefore, by

    travelling the world and noticing other people’s moral values is dramatically different,

    can give rise to cultural relativism.

    3. Is it immoral to believe a claim without evidence? Why or why not?

    I believe that it is always immoral to believe a claim without seeing the evidence,

    and only relying on how emotional the claim is. Such claims sometimes can affect the

    lives of people who may be directly or indirectly related to these claims. For example, I

    believe that false accusations and rumors are great examples of what claims without

    evidence can turn into, and such things can easily spread negativity or hate, or make

    victims lose their jobs, reputation or even lives. Also, not believing claims without

    evidence forces people to research and think more and try to find evidence to back the

    claim up or deny it, which is a more moral thing than just believing a claim without

    evidence

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    Work Cited

    Schultz, Kai. “Murders of Religious Minorities in India Go Unpunished, Report Finds.”


    The New York times, 18 February 2019, https:// www.nytimes.com /2019/02/18/
    world/asia/india-cow-religious-attacks.html

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