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To test whether certain features (such as being a criminal or having a certain skin color) justify a certain kind of treatment, we should
{ 1 } - check out our moral intuitions.
{ 2 } - check out the moral standards of our community.
{ 3 } - see if we can universally prescribe that people with those features (including ourselves, in actual or hypothetical cases) receive that kind of treatment.
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To test whether certain features (such as being a criminal or having a certain skin color) justify a certain kind of treatment, we should
{ 1 } - check out our moral intuitions.
{ 2 } - check out the moral standards of our community.
{ 3 } - see if we can universally prescribe that people with those features (including ourselves, in actual or hypothetical cases) receive that kind of treatment.
What if you've been brought up to have racist intuitions?
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To test whether certain features (such as being a criminal or having a certain skin color) justify a certain kind of treatment, we should
{ 1 } - check out our moral intuitions.
{ 2 } - check out the moral standards of our community.
{ 3 } - see if we can universally prescribe that people with those features (including ourselves, in actual or hypothetical cases) receive that kind of treatment.
What if your community has racist standards?
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3 is correct!
To test whether certain features (such as being a criminal or having a certain skin color) justify a certain kind of treatment, we should
{ 1 } - check out our moral intuitions.
{ 2 } - check out the moral standards of our community.
{ 3 } - see if we can universally prescribe that people with those features (including ourselves, in actual or hypothetical cases) receive that kind of treatment.
We can't trust community standards (they might be racist) or moral intuitions (we might have been brought up to have racist intuitions).
Hare's test is based on what we must do to be consistent in making moral judgments, in view of the logical features of such judgments.
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