morally wrong

[NSNguyen]

15. To perform an act that is morally wrong is to offend against humanity, and all offenses against humanity are equally bad. Because murder is morally wrong, it is just as bad to have murdered one person by setting off a bomb as it would have been to have murdered a hundred people by setting off that bomb.
Which one of the following judgments conforms to the principles invoked above?
(A) If lying is morally wrong, telling a lie is as bad as murdering someone.
(B) Risking one’s life to save the lives of a hundred people is morally no better than risking one’s life to save one person.
(C) If stealing is morally wrong, it is equally important to society to prevent people from stealing as it is to prevent then from committing murder.
(D) Accidentally causing the death of a person is just as bad as murdering that person.
(E) In a situation in which the life of one person can be saved only by killing another person, killing and not killing are equally bad.

[wonder]

hey...

not quite sure about this...but I will go with A..we need to compare the acts that are morally wrong. so if telling a lie is morally wrong>>telling a lie is an offense agnst humanity>>thus its as bad as the other mentioned morally wrong act (ie murdering)

i had a confusion with C, but then though that its bringing in what the society should do etc, so its kindof out of context...whats the oa??

[banker1]

Agree with wonder on this one.

The passage is straight forward. Performing an act that is morally wrong is an offense against humanity. All offenses against humanity are equally bad.

(B), (C), and (E) are out. I had some confusion with (D) but determined that accidentally killing someone is not morally wrong, it's an accident.

(A) best answer, seems to repeat back what the passage states.

[kuroneko1313]

I agree with A too. What's the OA?

[vin2k]

I think the answer is A as well, since lying here is analogous to murdering.

[john83.amar]

I like the explanation on A