Hernandez: Celebrities’ public pronouncements can warp a debate because people grant more weight to celebrities’ opinions than to ordinary people’s. For that reason, celebrities should avoid talking which they have no expertise.
Liu: But celebrities are full members of their communities. It is not their fault if people give their opinions more credence than they should. So it is absurd free to join controversial debates.
What this question is testing
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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