Anger in response to insults

Answer choices

1. A

   Unrelated to Goal3% picked this

   Actions prompted by ignorance do not warrant

   This has no language dealing with whether or not "anger is an unreasonable response", so it can't help us to prove that language.

   3%
2. B

   Too Weak14% picked this

   Anger is an unreasonable response to

   This looks pretty good, but it only proves the conclusion for one half of the author's binary. If insult is true, then it's useful information, and thus (according to this answer), anger is an unreasonable response. But ... what about if insult is false? We don't have a mechanism for proving that anger is an unreasonable response to those sorts of insults.

   14%
3. C

   Correct73% picked this

   Anger is an unreasonable response to any action that should prompt

   Why this is right

   This covers both halves of the binary. This answer looks like this: If an action should anger prompt pity or ? unreasonable should prompt response gratitude We know that insults must be true or false. If they're true they should prompt gratitude. If they're false, they should prompt pity. So insults should either prompt pity or gratitude, and thus (according to this answer choice), anger is an unreasonable response to insults.

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

   73%
4. D

   Unrelated to Goal8% picked this

   Gratitude and pity are reasonable responses to some forms of hostile

   This has no language dealing with whether or not "anger is an unreasonable response", so it can't help us to prove that language.

   8%
5. E

   Bad Premise Match1% picked this

   Pity is the only reasonable reaction to people with

   This has no language explicitly dealing with "anger" but it still allows us to rule out anger as a reasonable response, because of its restrictive wording. This rule is saying that "anger is an unreasonable reaction to people with undesirable characteristics". We're trying to prove that "anger is an unreasonable reaction to insults". Those are not the same, and we have no way to get from one to the other. An insult by Person X is an assertion that Person Y has undesirable characteristics. This answer choice is saying "anger would be an unreasonable reaction to Person Y", but the conclusion is saying "anger would be an unreasonable reaction to Person X".

   1%