Ariel: Government art subsidies never

Answer choices

1. A

   Both Agree2% picked this

   art’s role is to challenge society’s

   As we vetted earlier, Sasha's very first claim explicitly agrees with Ariel regarding this claim.

   2%
2. B

   Both Seemingly Agree11% picked this

   a society’s values are expressed by

   As we evaluated earlier, Ariel definitely believes this and Sasha seemingly agrees with it too. We definitely have no support for the idea that Sasha disagrees with this.

   11%
3. C

   Unsupported Both4% picked this

   artists can express themselves freely in a

   Neither party discusses whether artists can express themselves freely in a nondemocratic society. Ariel thinks that government-subsidized artists can't express themselves freely, but that's not the same as generalizing about all artists within a nondemocratic society. Sasha only expresses herself freely in democratic societies.

   4%
4. D

   Correct81% picked this

   art subsidies provided by a democratic government

   Why this is right

   We know that Ariel would say Disagree with this, because she would say Government art subsidies never benefit art. We can support that Sasha would Agree with this, because she said In a democratic society, government art subsidies ensure that artists can be fully committed to their work while expressing themselves freely We just have to add the common sense assumption that "it can benefit art when artists can be fully committed to their work while expressing themselves freely".

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

   81%
5. E

   Out of Scope: fairly distributed2% picked this

   only governments that respect dissent ensure that art subsidies are

   Neither person was ever discussing whether government subsidies (in any system) were fairly vs. unfairly distributed.

   2%