Advanced LR Course Lesson #13 Principle Questions

[Echx73]

Hi Team,

I was reviewing the lesson #13 lecture on principle questions and something stood out to me that I did not understand on your first example question.

The stimulus gives two conditional reasoning situations. My question is on the latter one containing "either/or" structuring. The conditional statement is as follows:

"whereas an action that harms another person is morally bad either such harm was intended or if reasonable forethought would have shown the action was likely to cause harm."

I recognized the either/or immediately and drew this:

CAUSED HARM(morally bad) or NO REASONABLE FORETHOUGHT(morally bad)

I felt like this situation did not have to have BOTH sufficient conditions to happen; just one had to happen.

What am I missing!?

As always, thank you!

Eric

[Nikki Siclunov]

Eric,

The principle in question is as follows:

whereas an action that harms another person is morally bad either if such harm was intended or if reasonable forethought would have shown that the action was likely to cause harm

Note that harm is an element of proving when an action is morally bad. If the harm was intended, or else if it were foreseeable (for simplicity's sake, I'm rewording the second condition), then the action is morally bad:

• Intent to cause harm
  
  Harm + OR Morally Bad
  
  Foreseeable harm likely

Answer choice (E) satisfies this principle, because Jonathan should have foreseen the harm caused to his niece.

Let me know if this clears it up!

Thanks,

[Echx73]

It does! Thank you!