Multiple Choice
Which of the following is an example of an intermediate moral principle?
A) Lying to a potential sexual partner is seriously wrong when that person would refuse a sexual relationship if he or she knew the truth.
B) Act so as to treat humanity, whether in your own person or in that of another, always as an end in itself and never merely as a means.
C) Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness and wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness, where happiness is understood as pleasure and the absence of pain.
D) Barack Obama acted wrongly in ordering a drone strike to kill the U.S. citizen Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen.
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