aonie wrote:
Here's another one:
happy solving...answer will follow soon.
To hold criminals for their crimes involves a failure to recognise that criminal actions, like all actions are ultimately products of the environment that forged the agent's character. it is not criminals but people in the law abiding majority who by their actions do most to create and maintain this environment. Therefore, it is law abiding people whose actions and nothing else, make them alone truly responsible for crime.
The reasoning in the argument is most vulnerable to critism on the grounds that:
A.it exploits an ambiguity in the term "environment" by treating 2 different meanings of the word as thought they were equivalent.
B.it fails to distinguish between actions that are socially acceptable andactions that are socially unacceptable.
C.the way it distinguishes criminals from crimes implicitly denies that someone becomes a criminal solely in virtue of having commited a crime.
D.its conclusion is a generalisation of statistical evidence drawn from only a small minority of the population.
E.its conclusion contradicts an implicit principle on which an earlier part of the argument is based.
Paul wrote:
mba, there is no ambiguity with the word environment here. It really means the social surrounding of the concerned individual.
The stem says that criminals should not be blamed for their crime since it is their environment which formed their character. This basically means that it is the environment which should be blamed for any individual's behaviour.
Yet, the conclusion says that the law abiding majority, and nothing else, which should be blamed for criminals' behavior. Well, this directly contradicts the principle that it is the environment which should be blamed for any individual's behaviours.
Lets dissect this to pieces, shall we?
INTRO( also a conclusion enforcer): Drivers of the actions, not its product is responsible.
("To hold criminals for their crimes
involves a failure to recognise that criminal actions, like all actions are ultimately products of the environment that forged the agent's character.")
Assumptions:
Criminals actions are product of conducive environment
Conducive environment is
product of Majority of the people
Majority of the people are law abiding
Conclusion:
Therefore, it is law abiding people whose actions and nothing else, make them alone truly responsible for crime.
E fared better compared to others, But still has some probs. Evironment should also be blamed doesn't fare well with the " drivers of actions not its
products be balmed' : the core argument of this passage. And environment as asserted is just mere a "product".