Logical Reasoning

PT124 · S3 · Q21 People who object to

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People who object to the proposed hazardous waste storage site by appealing to extremely implausible scenarios in which the site fails to contain the waste safely are overlooking the significant risks associated with delays in moving the waste from its present unsafe location.

Given

People who object to the proposed hazardous waste storage site by appealing to extremely implausible scenarios in which the site fails to contain the waste safely are overlooking the significant risks associated with delays in moving the waste from its present unsafe location.

If we wait to remove the waste until we find a site certain to contain it safely, the waste will remain in its current location for many years, since it is currently impossible to guarantee that any site can meet that criterion.

Yet keeping the waste at the current location for that long clearly poses unacceptable risks.

21.

The statements above, if true, most strongly support which one of the following?

  1. The waste should never have

    Too Strong

    While the waste should be moved to the new location, to say that the waste should never have been stored in the present location goes too far.

    2% picked this

  2. The waste should be placed

    Unsupported Comparison

    The only comparison made in the statements is between the current location and the one proposed.

    2% picked this

  3. Correct

    Moving the waste to the

    Why this is right

    The scenarios in which storing the waste in the new location poses a threat are implausible, while the present location is described as unsafe. So the proposed site would likely reduce the threat posed by the waste.

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

    71% picked this

  4. Whenever waste must be moved,

    Too Strong

    This generalizes beyond the present case at hand. The statements only speak to whether the waste stored at the current location should be moved.

    16% picked this

  5. Any site to which the

    Unsupported Comparison

    While the waste will be safer in the proposed site than in its current location, to say that it would be safer in any site to which the waste could be moved goes too far.

    9% picked this

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