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10 Mar 2020, 01:45
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Can any research be found to validate the contention that those who spend time plucking out their gray hairs have more negative attitudes toward the elderly than those who shrug their shoulders about their gray hairs? Unless a person’s psychopathology leads him or her to overgeneralize, there is no necessary connection. Certainly it is reasonable to like the elderly yet dislike the idea of impaired eyesight and hearing. Furthermore, holding negative attitudes toward older people merely because they are old is immoral, according to nearly universally accepted ethical standards. But there is nothing immoral about disliking some concomitants of the aging process.
In order to advance her point of view, the author does all of the following EXCEPT:
(A) dismiss an assertion as unfounded
(B) appeal to reason
(C) appeal to a general principle
(D) discredit a common stereotype about the elderly
(E) make a distinction about attitudes
10 Mar 2020, 05:49
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(A) is not the answer, because the author does this in “… there is no necessary connection”, referring to the assertion that those who spend time plucking out their gray hairs have more negative attitudes towards the elderly than those who shrug their shoulders about their gray hairs.
(B) is not the answer, because the author does this in “Certainly it is reasonably to like the elderly yet dislike the idea of impaired eyesight and hearing.”
(C) is not the answer, because the author appeals to the “nearly universally accepted ethical standards” in claiming that holding negative attitudes towards older people merely because they are old is immoral.
(D) is the CORRECT ANSWER choice. The author does not discredit any stereotypes about the elderly in the argument.
(E) is not the answer, because the author makes the distinction between holding negative attitudes toward older people merely because they are old, and disliking some concomitants of the aging process.
FINAL ANSWER IS (D)
(B) is not the answer, because the author does this in “Certainly it is reasonably to like the elderly yet dislike the idea of impaired eyesight and hearing.”
(C) is not the answer, because the author appeals to the “nearly universally accepted ethical standards” in claiming that holding negative attitudes towards older people merely because they are old is immoral.
(D) is the CORRECT ANSWER choice. The author does not discredit any stereotypes about the elderly in the argument.
(E) is not the answer, because the author makes the distinction between holding negative attitudes toward older people merely because they are old, and disliking some concomitants of the aging process.
FINAL ANSWER IS (D)
10 Mar 2020, 15:31
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D is the right answer.
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This is true per the information in the argument. The author dismissed the assertion whereby someone's dislikes for the characteristics associated with the elderly is misconstrued as a necessary condition that such a person dislikes the elderly.
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Through the example cited by the author that it is reasonable to like the elderly yet dislike the idea of impaired eyesight and hearing, the author appeals to reason.
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By stating that holding negative attitudes toward the elderly merely because they are old is immoral according to nearly universally accepted ethical standards, the author appeals to a general principle.
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No. The author did not discredit any common stereotype about the elderly. This is the correct answer.
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The author distinguished between the attitudes of someone who dislikes the characteristics of old age and someone who dislikes the elderly merely because they are old.
