According to the Fitness Model: an action is right if and only if, and because, it promotes survival and reproduction.
(a) In your own words, e xplain what a natural purpose is, in general,. Then explain what our natural purpose is according to the Fitness Model. T hen, in your own words, explain why homosexual relations pose a problem for the Fitness model.
(b) Tell me if you think that the Efficiency model does a better job than the Fitness Model at accounting for homosexual relations. Explain why or why not.
(c) Suggest a way that someone who endorses the Fitness Model can alter their understanding of a natural purpose in order to better account for homosexual relations. Explain why this avoids the problem that the original faced.
(d) Using this new understanding of a natural purpose, fill in the following analysis:
An action is right if and only if, and because _________________. Then, come up with a counter-example to that analysis.
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