Trade negotiator: Increasing economic

Answer choices

1. A

   Bad Conclusion Match2% picked this

   Every country should adopt at least some policies that encourage the development of political freedom

   We need a principle that would help us argue that we shouldn't adopt a certain policy. This rule is only set up to prove that a country should adopt a policy.

   2%
2. B

   Bad Conclusion Match Unrelated to Goal3% picked this

   Both economic prosperity and political freedom can contribute to the overall well-being of

   This rule doesn't have any language like "shouldn't adopt a policy", so it's useless for our goal.

   3%
3. C

   Bad Conclusion Match Unrelated to Goal1% picked this

   The primary reason that any country seeks economic prosperity is to foster political freedom

   This rule doesn't have any language like "shouldn't adopt a policy", so it's useless for our goal.

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4. D

   Correct86% picked this

   A country should not do anything that might hinder the growth of political freedom in

   Why this is right

   This has the power to prove that a country should not do certain things, which could work for our conclusion which is "should not adopt a trade policy". We need to ask ourselves whether the trigger of this rule would apply to trade policies that hinder prosperity. The rule says, If X might hinder the then no country growth of political ? should do that freedom in another thing country Yes, the trigger does apply. We were told that prosperity tends to bring political freedom. So if a trade policy hinders prosperity, then it might hinder the growth of political freedom. Thus, according to this rule, no country should adopt such a trade policy. It basically proves the conclusion!

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

   86%
5. E

   Bad Trigger Match7% picked this

   It is wrong for any country to adopt trade policies that might diminish the prosperity

   This also has tempting language that resembles our Evidence and our Conclusion. But it looks like this, If a trade policy would then wrong for diminish the prosperity ? any country to of a country's inhabitants adopt it The problem here is that we have no reason to think that if we, country X, were to adopt a trace policy that hindered prosperity in country Y, it would diminish the prosperity of our country's inhabitants. The trade policy would diminish the prosperity of Y's inhabitants. This rule's trigger is saying, "if it would diminish X's prosperity, then X shouldn't do it". This answer would be totally correct if it ended, "... that might diminish the prosperity of another country's inhabitants".

   7%