Ana: On libertarian principles

Answer choices

1. A

   Out of Scope Person 25% picked this

   it is the government's business to prevent people from

   As we analyzed, Pankaj makes no statements about the government at all.

   5%
2. B

   Out of Scope Person 23% picked this

   government should be restrained by libertarian

   As we analyzed, Pankaj makes no statements about the government at all.

   3%
3. C

   Correct78% picked this

   the proposed smoking ban is intended to prevent harm only to

   Why this is right

   Ana would agree with this. It's implied by her statements that she opposes the ban because she thinks it's intended to prevent harm only to smokers themselves and she rejects that on libertarian principles. Panjak would disagree with this, because by pointing out that you are banned from smoking in public places but not in private, he's implying that the ban is targeting the effects of smoking on others not on the smoker him/herself.

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

   78%
4. D

   Unknown Person 15% picked this

   the proposed ban would prohibit smoking in

   Pankaj would clearly agree with this because he explicitly says this. Can we derive from Ana's paragraph that she thinks that "the proposed ban would not prohibit smoking in public places"? No, we can't derive that. She may think that the smoking ban applies to public places (as well as private places). If we changed this answer to say "the proposed ban would prohibit smoking only in public places", then we could probably pick it.

   5%
5. E

   Out of Scope Person 29% picked this

   there are cases in which government should attempt to regulate

   As we analyzed, Pankaj makes no statements about the government at all.

   9%