Unit quiz: Consequences, duties and intended means

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5 questions · 80% to pass · no timer. This quiz checks the lessons in this unit. These authored questions assess recognition and application of the taught distinctions, not professional qualification. You may review the lessons and retry. Repeat attempts reuse the question bank; a remembered answer is not proof of transfer to a new situation.

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Question 1

A fabricated charitable report could attract donations now but damage trust when discovered. An act analysis must count those downstream risks. A rule analysis asks what happens under a practice permitting such fabrication, not just whether this isolated deception seems profitable. Both can oppose the lie for differently structured reasons.

Question 2

Consider obtaining money by promising repayment while intending never to repay. If false promises became the accepted policy whenever money was wanted, the reliance that makes promising useful would be undermined. The criticism targets exploiting a practice while adopting a maxim incompatible with its universal operation.

Question 3

A tutor openly offers lessons at an agreed fee: both parties pursue ends through cooperation. A tutor hides a material limitation to secure payment prevents the learner from making an informed choice. The learner becomes a tool of the tutor’s plan rather than a participant able to assess it.

Question 4

You promised a friend routine help but encounter someone needing urgent assistance. The emergency may outweigh fidelity to the appointment. The promise still supplies a reason to notify your friend, apologize, or rearrange help. That residual responsibility distinguishes overriding a duty from declaring it never mattered.

Question 5

Compare warning residents before necessary demolition, while accepting unavoidable inconvenience, with deliberately frightening residents because fear is the chosen method of making them leave. In the second plan fear is instrumental, not merely foreseen. This establishes a means/side-effect distinction; it alone does not settle either action’s permissibility.

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