1. How useful are thought experiments in thinking about what duties we
owe to distant needy strangers?
2. ‘When we are faced with a choice between saving the lives of the
greater number or the smaller number, the question is not whether we
should save the greater number, but why.’ Is this right?
3. EITHER (a) Does consent need to be communicated in order to create
a moral permission?
OR (b) Setting aside threats of physical violence, can verbal pressure
invalidate consent?
4. What more is there to a promise than a simple statement of intention?
5. ‘You wrong another person by performing an action if they could not
reasonably consent to this action.’ Is this right?
6. Are there any good arguments for voluntarism?
7. Are moral facts more like mathematical facts or aesthetic facts?
8. ‘Since morals have an influence on the actions and affections, it
follows, that they cannot be derived from reason.’ Does it?
9. What makes a disposition a vice? Does it follow that the vices include
rudeness?
10.‘If people’s reasons for action depend on their desires, then people
without at least some desire to be good have no reason to be good.
So, people’s reasons for action don’t depend on their desires.’ Is this a
good argument?