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Can anyone explain how option A is correct?

what is the implication of belief here?
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The view that every person is concerned exclusively with her or his own self-interest implies that government by consent is impossible. Thus, social theorists who believe that people are concerned only with their self‐interest evidently believe that aspiring to democracy is futile, since democracy is not possible in the absence of government by consent.

The reasoning in the argument is flawed in that the argument

(A) infers merely from the fact of someone’s holding a belief that he or she believes an implication of that belief- implication mean drawing a conclusion from something that is not explicitly stated and that what argument is doing. From the belief (or some evidence about people) it is drawing some conclusion and is therefore the flaw that we are looking for

(B) infers that because something is true of a group of people, it is true of each individual member of the group- nothing is talked about the group of individual or a group so its out. It is talking about for every person

(C) infers that because something is true of each individual person belonging to a group, it is true of the group as a whole- same as B

(D) attempts to discredit a theory by discrediting those who espouse that theory- discredit means to undermine a theory, nth like this is happening here

(E) fails to consider that, even if an argument’s conclusion is false, some of the assumptions used to justify that conclusion may nonetheless be true
- Again nth like this is mentioned in the passage or happening in the passage. Passage is simply drawing a conclusion from a belief of people .
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