Prime minister: Our nation's

Answer choices

1. A

   Opposite3% picked this

   A nation’s government should not attempt to satisfy the needs of a group of people unless the satisfaction of those people’s needs is objectively

   According to the stimulus, the needs of this nation's people are not more important than anyone else's needs. Thus, according to this answer choice, the government should not attempt to satisfy the needs of its people. That contradicts the half of the paradox we're trying to explain. We're looking for a way to justify that a government should attempt to satisfy the needs of its people.

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2. B

   Opposite3% picked this

   A nation’s government should give priority to satisfying the needs of its own people over satisfying the needs of another nation’s people only if

   According to the stimulus, the people of this nation are no more worthy than other nation's people. Thus, according to this answer choice, the government should not attempt to satisfy the needs of its people. That contradicts the half of the paradox we're trying to explain. We're looking for a way to justify that a government should attempt to satisfy the needs of its people.

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3. C

   Opposite4% picked this

   The priority a nation’s government should place on satisfying the needs of a group of people depends mainly on how objectively important it is

   According to the stimulus, the needs of this nation's people are equally important to satisfy as are the needs of other nations' people. Thus, according to this answer choice, the government should place equal priority on satisfying the needs of people from all nations. That contradicts the half of the paradox we're trying to explain. We're looking for a way to justify that a government should prioritize the needs of its people.

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4. D

   Correct89% picked this

   When the people of two nations are equally worthy, the needs of the people of each of those nations should be satisfied

   Why this is right

   According to the stimulus, the people of all nations are equally worthy. Thus, according to this answer choice, the needs of the people of each nation should be satisfied primarily by that people's government. This gives us a way to justify that a government should prioritize the needs of its own people, since their needs should be satisfied primarily by that government.

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

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5. E

   Bad Trigger Match1% picked this

   A nation’s government should give priority to the satisfaction of the needs of a group of people if, but only if, there is no

   This provides a bi-conditional idea (if and only if) that's saying, either ... there's no other way to satisfy People X's needs other than a nation's government giving priority to satisfying those needs, and thus that government should give priority or ... there is some other way to satisfy People X's needs, besides a nation's government giving priority to satisfying those needs, and thus that government should not give priority. We have no way to apply this rule to any nation, because we were never told about any nation's people "there is no other way to satisfy their needs" or "there is some other way to satisfy their needs". This gives us a conditional, but we don't have any information available to trigger it.

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