The following are the questions and each answer should be 10 sentences long. The due date is this Wednesday at 11:59 but I rather have it by monday or tuesday to make sure everything looks good. Is Killing in War Wrong? 1. What version of the principle of self-defense does each of our two authors use? Is there some other version that might be superior to both? 2. What actually is an enemy combatant? Is an army cook, for example, a combatant? Does it make a difference whether the cook is an enlisted soldier or a contract laborer? If the cook is an enemy combatant, is the truck driver who delivers oatmeal (for the soldiers’ breakfast) also a combatant? If not, why is he any different from the cook? Is Euthanasia Wrong? 3. There are certain kinds of differences between the two cases that even Rachels would not deny. For example, Jones is a different person from Smith. Jones’ cousin dies at a moment different from that at which Smith’s cousin dies. The drownings take place in different bathtubs and so on. Are any of these differences morally relevant? Can you show that they are morally irrelevant by means of bare-difference arguments? 4. Nesbitt offers a modified version of Rachels’ story. What, if anything, does Nesbitt’s modified version of the story tell us? Does it tell us that the only thing that matters in the evaluation of character is intention? 5. Perrett maintains that Nesbitt misconstrues the structure of a bare-difference argument. What is his reason for this? Is he right?
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