Logical Reasoning

PT6 · S2 · Q24 Someone’s benefiting from having done

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Someone’s benefiting from having done harm to another person is morally justifiable only if the person who was harmed knew that what was done could cause that harm but consented to its being done anyway.

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.

24.

Which one of the following judgments most closely conforms to the principle above?

  1. Attempting to avoid being kept

    Trap

    8% picked this

  2. Since Ned would not have

    Trap

    3% picked this

  3. Correct

    Wesley, a doctor, persuaded Max

    Why this is right

    Answer C is correct.

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

    78% picked this

  4. Because Roger’s mother suffered severe

    Trap

    8% picked this

  5. For James, who was convicted

    Trap

    3% picked this

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