Ethicist: The penalties for drunk

Answer choices

1. A

   Too Strong3% picked this

   It is a premise offered in support of the claim that legal responsibility for an action is based solely upon features of the action

   While the claim is a premise offered in support of the intermediate conclusion, the description of the intermediate conclusion in this answer is too strong.

   3%
2. B

   Bad Conclusion Match24% picked this

   It is offered as an illustration of the claim that the criteria of legal responsibility for an action include but are not the

   To say that the criteria for legal responsibility includes, but are not the same as those for moral responsibility, means that every part of moral responsibility is in legal responsibility but there are parts of legal responsibility that aren't in moral responsibility. The criteria for being a square include but are not the same as those for being a rectangle. Every prerequisite of rectangles (four sides, four right angles, two pairs of parallel sides) is also a prerequisite of squares, but there is a prerequisite of squares (four equal sides) that is not a prerequisite of rectangles. This paragraph does not establish that every part of moral responsibility is included in legal responsibility. It only establishes that one part of legal responsibility (severity of consequences) is not part of moral responsibility. The available conclusions are "Legal Resp is different from Moral Resp" and "Legal Resp depends in some cases on things besides intentions". Saying that "legal responsibility includes everything moral responsibility has, plus other stuff" doesn't match either of those conclusions.

   24%
3. C

   Contradiction4% picked this

   It is offered as an illustration of the claim that people may be held morally responsible for an action for which

   The claim that people may be held morally responsible for an action for which they are not legally responsible does not exist within the argument.

   4%
4. D

   Correct63% picked this

   It is a premise offered in support of the claim that legal responsibility depends in at least some cases on factors

   Why this is right

   This correctly describes the role of the claim as a premise for the intermediate conclusion of the argument.

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

   63%
5. E

   Contradiction6% picked this

   It is a premise offered in support of the claim that moral responsibility depends solely on the intentions underlying the action and

   The claim is offered in support of the argument’s intermediate conclusion, while this suggests the claim supports another premise in the argument.

   6%