PHIL 140 Quiz #44/27/2012F 1. Harris argues that we should give priority to saving as many life-years as we can when it comes to deciding how to allocate life-saving resources.F 2. Harris thinks that the decision of whether or not to provide life-saving treatment to someone should depend on that person's quality of life, number of dependents and friends, and usefulness to society.F 3. Harris holds that we simply do not have enough resources to spare in order to save the lives of all those in immediate mortal danger (even in the absence of unforeseen disasters and other such emergencies).T 4. In discussing the Fair Chances/Best Outcomes problem, Danielsconcludes that there is no clear solution as to whether Alice or Betty should receive the heart transplant in question.T 5. Daniels says that basing decisions about how to ration life-saving resources on objective values instead of on what members of the community say they want may come across as
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