Situation: In the island nation of Bezun

Answer choices

1. A

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   A library charges a late fee in order to induce borrowers to return books promptly. The library uses revenue from the late fee to

   The library uses late-fee revenue to send reminders aimed at the same goal — reducing overdue books. The two objectives are aligned, not in tension. In the original, the gas tax discourages driving while the revenue funds a separate goal (cheap electricity); success at driving-reduction does not help electricity prices. Here, both objectives serve the same end, so success on one would arguably help the other (or be neutral), not undermine it.

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2. B

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   A mail-order store imposes a stiff surcharge for overnight delivery in order to limit use of this option. The store uses revenue from the

   The store uses surcharge revenue to cover the costs of providing overnight delivery. Success at limiting overnight orders just reduces the costs and the revenue equally — there is no self-defeating tension between two separate goals. The structure is recovering costs of the very thing being discouraged, not funding a separate objective whose success depends on the deterrent failing.

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3. C

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   The park management charges an admission fee so that a park’s users will contribute to the park’s upkeep. In order to keep admission fees

   The park's admission fee is meant to make users contribute to upkeep — a single-goal, single-revenue structure. The clause about not financing new projects is a separate decision, not a second objective whose success is undermined by the first. There is no two-goal tension at all.

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4. D

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   A restaurant adds a service charge in order to spare customers the trouble of individual tips. The service charge is then shared among the

   The restaurant's service charge is not designed to discourage anything — it is designed to spare customers from tipping individually. So there is no "deterrence" goal whose success would defeat the second goal. The original argument hinges on a tax-as-deterrent that funds a separate goal; this lacks that deterrent dynamic.

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5. E

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   The highway administration charges a toll for crossing a bridge in order to get motorists to use other routes. It uses the revenue from

   Why this is right

   This is the same structure. A toll is charged to discourage motorists from using the bridge (objective 1, like the gas tax to discourage driving). The toll revenue is used to fund a reserve to build a new bridge (objective 2, like funding electricity subsidies). The more successful the toll is at deterring bridge use, the less toll revenue comes in, and the less money there is to build the new bridge. Success at objective 1 undermines objective 2 — exactly the trap in the Bezun example.

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

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