Logical ReasoningDifficulty: Easy

PT134 S2 Q8 Explanation

Journalist: To reconcile the need

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Stimulus

Journalist: To reconcile the need for profits sufficient to support new drug research with the moral imperative to provide medicines to those who most need them but cannot afford them, some pharmaceutical companies feel justified in selling a drug in rich nations at one price and in poor nations at a much new drugs than are many of the poorer citizens of an overall wealthier nation.

What this question is testing

Principle-Strengthen

Your task

Break the argument into its conclusion and evidence, then do exactly what the question stem asks with that structure.

Common trap

Answers that sound relevant to the topic but don't connect to the argument's actual reasoning.

Winning move

Predict what a right answer must do, then test each choice against the conclusion-evidence gap.

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The question
8.

Which one of the following principles, if valid, most helps to justify

Answer choices

  1. Weaken2% picked this

    People who are ill deserve more consideration than do healthy people, regardless of their

    This undermines the argument’s assertion that one’s ability to pay should determine the price one pays.

  2. Out of Scope2% picked this

    Wealthy institutions have an obligation to expend at least some of their resources to assist those

    The argument does not indicate whether pharmaceutical companies are wealthy institutions.

  3. Correct87% picked this

    Whether one deserves special consideration depends on one's needs rather than on characteristics of the society

    Why this is right

    This addresses the right comparison to support the argument. This suggests that it is not where one lives that should determine the price one pays, but rather one’s ability to pay that determines the price one pays.

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

  4. Irrelevant Comparison4% picked this

    The people in wealthy nations should not have better access to health care than do the

    The argument does not address whether wealthy nations have better access to health care than poor nations, but instead discusses charging a different price for a medicine based on whether one lives in a wealthy nation or a poor one.

  5. Irrelevant Comparison6% picked this

    Unequal access to health care is more unfair than an unequal

    An unequal distribution of wealth is not judged to be fair or unfair in the argument.

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