For reasons both social and technical, please do not introduce any external voic
For reasons both social and technical, please do not introduce any external voices, and especially any introduced as somehow authoritative. The assignment should offer the opportunity to introduce your tentative analysis and theoretical reflection. It is not a place for googling what other people might say about an issue being posed, nor for any pose of your lecturing others. No one is in a position to settle issues that are inevitably subtle and complex. Conclusions are not really at issue: the intellectual process is.
Discussion: Everything is Permitted?
When a theorist goes the route of asking rhetorical questions, then the expected answers should not beg the question. Setting aside the possibility that theistic philosophers would simply swoon at the question “if God turned out not to exist, then slavery would be OK?” – as Louise Antony seems to think – what sort of response would be open to them?