Logical Reasoning

PT125 · S4 · Q22 The short-term and long-term

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The short-term and long-term interests of a business often conflict; when they do, the morally preferable act is usually the one that serves the long-term interest.

Evidence

The short-term and long-term IC interests of a business often conflict.

When they do, the morally IC → LT preferable act is usually the one that serves the long-term interest.

Conclusion

Businesses often have CRE compelling reasons to execute the morally preferable act.

Evaluate

The argument assumes that LT → CRE the long-term interests of a business often have compelling reasons to execute an act.

22.

Which one of the following, if assumed, enables the conclusion of the argument to be properly drawn?

  1. A business's moral interests do

    Weakens

    If a business’s moral interests are it’s long-term interests, then this would limit the frequency in which such interests offer a compelling reason to execute the morally preferable act.

    1% picked this

  2. Correct

    A business's long-term interests often

    Why this is right

    This bridges the gap between LT → CRE the identifying which interests are morally preferable and actually have a compelling reasoning to execute on those interests.

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

    71% picked this

  3. The morally preferable act for

    Premise Support

    This supports the premise that the long-term interests of a company are usually morally preferable to it’s short-term interests.

    15% picked this

  4. The morally preferable act for

    Premise Support

    This supports the premise that the long-term interests of a company are usually morally preferable to it’s short-term interests.

    11% picked this

  5. When a business's short-term and

    Out of Scope - Term Shift

    The issue isn’t whether morality offers overriding considerations, but whether morality overlaps with considerations that are compelling.

    2% picked this

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