A certain moral system holds

Answer choices

1. A

   Correct82% picked this

   People who perform good actions out of habit have often acquired this habit after years

   Why this is right

   This reconciles "doing X out of habit" with "had to overcome powerful temptation in order to do X". Maybe Sally has a habit of jogging at 530am every morning, which is a good action that she deserves praise for . If we watched her now, it doesn't look like she is overcoming a powerful temptation in order to go jogging. She just gets up, laces up her kicks, grabs her earbuds, and hits the pavement. But ... in order to have this habit of jogging at 530am, for years she had to resist the temptation to go back to sleep when that 5:30 alarm goes off. So even if she now is such a habitual jogger that getting up and jogging doesn't seem like it takes much will power, we can still praise her for "performing the action of 5:30 jogging out of habit" because in order to perform this habitual action, she had to overcome years of temptation.

   Skill tested: Paradox · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.

   82%
2. B

   Unrelated to Goal3% picked this

   Most people face strong moral temptation from time to time but few people have to

   This answer does nothing to reconcile "doing X out of habit" with "had to overcome powerful temptation in order to do X". It doesn't even mention habits. Thus, it doesn't help us understand how an action done out of habit would be considered praiseworthy.

   3%
3. C

   Unrelated to Goal1% picked this

   People virtually always perform actions they think are good, regardless of what other

   This answer does nothing to reconcile "doing X out of habit" with "had to overcome powerful temptation in order to do X". It doesn't even mention habits. Thus, it doesn't help us understand how an action done out of habit would be considered praiseworthy.

   1%
4. D

   Unrelated to Goal2% picked this

   Since it is difficult to tell what is going on in another person’s mind, it is often hard to know exactly how

   This answer does nothing to reconcile "doing X out of habit" with "had to overcome powerful temptation in order to do X". It doesn't even mention habits. Thus, it doesn't help us understand how an action done out of habit would be considered praiseworthy.

   2%
5. E

   No Impact / Opposite12% picked this

   It is far more common for people to perform good actions out of habit than for them to

   This answer isn't doing anything to reconcile "doing X out of habit" with "had to overcome powerful temptation in order to do X". In fact, the answer treats them as two separate cases, whereas we're trying to figure out how they could overlap at the same time (a good action that is both out of habit and against a strong temptation). This answer is dividing them: good actions done out of habit vs. good actions done against strong temptation?

   12%