Logical Reasoning

PT131 · S1 · Q16 Chiu: The belief that

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Chiu: The belief that a person is always morally blameworthy for feeling certain emotions, such as unjustifiable anger, jealousy, or resentment, is misguided.

Evidence

Individuals are responsible for only R → UC what is under their control.

Whether one feels such an FE ↢some↣ ~UC emotion is not always under one's control.

Conclusion

The belief that a person is always FE ↢some↣ ~MB morally blameworthy for feeling certain emotions, such as unjustifiable anger, jealousy, or resentment, is misguided.

Evaluate

The argument assumes that if ~R → ~MB someone is not responsible for something, then that person is not morally blameworthy for it.

16.

Chiu's conclusion follows logically if which one of the following is assumed?

  1. Individuals do not have control

    Out of Scope

    This answer is about someone’s actions when they feel certain emotions, while the stimulus is about whether the act of feeling certain emotions itself is under one’s control.

    12% picked this

  2. Correct

    If a person is morally

    Why this is right

    This is the contrapositive form of MB → R the anticipated assumption.

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

    69% picked this

  3. Although a person may sometimes

    Out of Scope

    Appropriate instances of anger and other emotions are not relevant to this argument, since the conclusion is concerned with unjustifiable instances of certain emotions.

    5% picked this

  4. If an emotion is under

    Out of Scope

    The argument is about UC → ~R instances that are not under one’s control, while this is about instances that are.

    9% picked this

  5. The emotions for which a

    Too Weak

    This relies on a further ~MCB → ~MB assumption that those instances one is not most commonly blamed are one’s someone is not morally blameworthy.

    5% picked this

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