Prephase: Something rests an assumption that without it would be untenable
A) Defer
B) Does not go along the lines of soemthing being of fundamental importance that can not be violated
C) Defer
D) Deception and rule violation does not seem like a good match, especailly with A and C already deffered to. We are not really talking about the ethics of deception either
E) Trap for using honesty but this is different. However, there is no link to something at the "start" that needs to be correct for something else to be tenable
I chose A originally however i think it is wrong because C is a closer match.
I think the issue with A is that it says "must be selected" which is a normative claim whereas originally the passage did not go that far in making a claim. Moreover, the passage and Choice C gave more intuition about why something is a necessary condition and must be trouble for something else to be tenable. ?Does anyone else have other thoughts on getting rid of "A"? I don't really know how to describe it but it just seems like "C" reads better