by ohthatpatrick Fri May 19, 2017 1:37 am
Question Type:
Author Opinion
Answer expected in lines/paragraph:
line 13 (Rawls ACCORDINGLY complains that), line 19 "ingenious", line 25-26 "clever"
Any prephrase?
On normal "author most likely to agree", we would prioritize re-reading any section of the passage we felt like was "the author's Opinion Zone". In THIS case, it's a very weird stem asking where Rawls AND the author would agree. We need line references of them agreeing, and line 13 seems to be the closest explicit agreement ("accordingly" indicates that the author shares Rawls' view)
Correct answer:
A
Answer choice analysis:
(A) YES. This sounds like line 13. Rawls and the author do not like utiliarianism because it would potentially let a mob kill an individual, since we're making more people happy with the mob. Rawls and the author COMPLAIN that "the liberty of the few might be violated by the greater good of the many". Hence, they would say (in flipsy-do Inference language) that "the liberty of the few is more important than the greater good of the many".
(B) Extreme: "unless" / they "cannot". Rawls system still involves self-interest (line 40-41)
(C) The AUTHOR (alone) says something close to this in the final sentence, but it is specifically about PRIMARY goods.
(D) Extreme: "most" / "most". Neither person said that over 50% of people will concur on the #1 primary good.
(E) This is the logical opposite of (A). Rawls and the author do NOT agree with this, according to line 13.
Takeaway/Pattern: Typically, open-ended questions that ask "inferred / implies / suggests / most likely to agree" we have some answer choices with obvious too strong language. Here, B/C/D/E are all very strong claims, whereas (A) is the easiest idea to support, since you only need one situation to justify it.
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