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1
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What is Ethics?

A

paying attention to something beyond ourselves

2
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Ethics focuses on what generation?

A

7 generation (not just for the generation now, but for the generations to come)

3
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What is it to take care?

A

1) look into, or investigate something
2) being conscious about something
3) sustain or further something

4
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What is flying by instinct?

A

Is when you decide to not think about anything at all to avoid feelings. “You go with the flow”.

5
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What is off-hand justification?

A

Thinking as little as possible. Being ignorant of what someone says because you are closed minded.

6
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What is the thought of everyone being selfish?

A

When someone thinks that peoples’s reactions and doings are always through a selfish way of thinking

7
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What is dogmatism?

A

When someone is so committed to their own ethical beliefs they refuse to listen or consider other ideas.

8
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What is relativism?

A

The thought of everyone’s opinions are as good as the next

9
Q

Who wrote “Am I Blue”?

A

Alice Walker

10
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Who wrote the hunt?

A

Ted Kerasote

11
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What is egoism?

A

Egoism is when you are only concerned with yourself in every action that you take

12
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Who wrote “Is food the new sex”?

A

Mary Eberstadt

13
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Who wrote “Food and Sex Reconsidered”?

A

Maggie Castor