Question: Please answer whether true or false. 1. Allowing consumers to file lawsuits when they are harmed by a company's products can be a way to

Please answer whether true or false.

1. Allowing consumers to file lawsuits when they are harmed by a company's products can be a way to maximize social welfare.

2. To get someone to do the right thing, it's useful to employ escalation of commitment, for example by first getting them to agree to abstract values and then getting them to take specific concrete actions.

3. Holding fixed the total wealth of a society, utilitarians do not care about how the wealth is distributed.

4. Taking anonymous straw polls before meetings and then making the results of the polls known can address both pluralistic ignorance and the false consensus effect.

5. Act utilitarianism does not require taking into account the long-term effects of one's decisions.

6. Rule utilitarianism requires taking into account the long-term effects of one's decisions.

7. Milton Friedman believed that corporations should treat society's cultural and ethical values as a constraint on profit maximization.

8. The following behavior fails the "what if everyone did this" test: Cheating on this exam in order to get an A instead of a C.

9. An example of the fundamental attribution error is that C-suite executives in profitable companies overestimate how much their own decisions contributed to their companies' success.

10. Milton Friedman would likely be supportive of Rawlsian justifications for diversity hiring policies.

11. People who care a lot about purity cannot also care a lot about fairness.

12. Authority figures often use their power to set norms for organizations. This is an example of moral credentialing.

13. In general, pluralistic ignorance and the false consensus effect cannot simultaneously dominate a social situation.

14. Elizabeth Anderson's primary concern about private government is that it leads to intrusive state control, thereby limiting individual workers' freedom and autonomy.

15. If one company pays bribes to obtain contracts, then the effect on a country's economic development is relatively minor. However, if all companies pay bribes all the time, then it would severely dampen a country's development. This line of reasoning is closest to rule utilitarianism.

16. Rawls's framework of justice allows for economic inequality.

17. A Rawlsian would be likely to argue for more stringent and costly safety features on products compared to a utilitarian.

18. Price discrimination often violates people's moral intuitions.

19. A CEO approves a deceptive form of advertising and then feels comfortable engaging in accounting fraud. This behavior is an example of escalation of commitment.

20. Elizabeth Anderson argues that while the higher-ranking employees of corporations may have some positive freedom, nearly all employees lack republican freedom within the workplace.

21. Utilitarians generally prioritize purity concerns.

22. A rule utilitarian would be OK with flipping a switch to kill one person and save five from an oncoming trolley, but would not be OK with a doctor harvesting the organs of a healthy patient to save five others.

23. Kantians are especially sensitive to the concerns of middle and lower income people in society because they are often used as a means to an end.

24. A point of disagreement between Kantians and adherents of Nozick's principle of justice is that only the latter believe violations of autonomy in exchange are unacceptable.

25. It can be difficult to faithfully apply the utilitarian framework in grey areas.

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