Which of the following researchers best reflects the perspective of Kant's theory of the categorical imperative?
a. Kelsey is a vegetarian, because she believes it is wrong to eat meat. Sheprovides both turkey sandwiches and vegetarian sandwiches for participantsin her focus group. She explains that most of the people in her communityeat meat, and she wants the focus group members to be comfortable.
b. Michael fears that children under the age of 5 who play video games,develop poorer social skills than those who do not play video games. To testthis important theory, he gives video games to a group of four-year olds anda year later compares their social skills to a group of children who aresimilar, but who have never played video games. He regrets exposing thetest group to video games, but believes the benefits of the study justify theact.
c. Luisa believes violent television programming is psychologically damaging toviewers. She designs her research using methods that do not involve askingsubjects to watch violent programming, because she feels it would beunethical to ask anyone to do something she considers wrong.
d. Carlos is about to begin an ethnographic study about the introduction of theInternet to a remote island village, when he discovers that the villagers havea strong taboo against letting themselves be recorded. He had planned tounobtrusively record his conversations with the villagers, but he decides torely on notes instead, even though he knows it is extremely unlikely that thevillagers would learn that they had been recorded.
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