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Walter: For the economically privileged in a society to tolerate an injustice perpetrated against one of society’s disadvantaged is not only just morally wrong but also shortsighted: a system that inflicts an injustice on a disadvantaged person today can equally well inflict that same injustice on a well-to-do person tomorrow.

Larissa: In our society, the wealthy as well as the well-educated can protect themselves against all sorts of injustices suffered by the less well-off. Allowing such injustices to persist is bad policy not because it places everyone at equal risk of injustice but because it is a potent source of social unrest.

Walter and Larissa are logically committed by what they say to disagree about which one of the following?

(A) whether the poor and the rich are part of the same social fabric

(B) whether the most successful members of a society are that society’s least tolerant people

(C) whether the disadvantaged members of society suffer from injustice

(D) whether those who have the most advantages in a society are morally obligated to correct that society’s injustices

(E) whether the economically privileged members of a society are less exposed to certain sorts of injustices than are the economically disadvantaged

exc4libur · Answer

ARGUMENT
w= privileged wont tolerate injustice towards disadvantaged
= bc allowing such today would allow such tomorrow towards a privileged one
l= privileged's can tolerate such injustice bc they can protect themselves better
= they won't allow it bc such causes social unrest

Ans (E) they disagree about the tolerance and exposure regarding privileged x disadvantaged.

chaitralirr · Answer

Walter: For the economically privileged in a society to tolerate an injustice perpetrated against one of society’s disadvantaged is not only just morally wrong but also shortsighted: a system that inflicts an injustice on a disadvantaged person today can equally well inflict that same injustice on a well-to-do person tomorrow.

Larissa: In our society, the wealthy as well as the well-educated can protect themselves against all sorts of injustices suffered by the less well-off. Allowing such injustices to persist is bad policy not because it places everyone at equal risk of injustice but because it is a potent source of social unrest.

Walter and Larissa are logically committed by what they say to disagree about which one of the following?

Stimulus: the economically privileged should morally defend the non economically privileged because today it is the non privileged but tomorrow it will be them. Larissa states that its not the fact that today the non privileged are suffering tomorrow privilege will suffer but for the fact that this would create a social unrest is important

IMO A

(A) whether the poor and the rich are part of the same social fabric

(B) whether the most successful members of a society are that society’s least tolerant people

(C) whether the disadvantaged members of society suffer from injustice

(D) whether those who have the most advantages in a society are morally obligated to correct that society’s injustices

(E) whether the economically privileged members of a society are less exposed to certain sorts of injustices than are the economically disadvantaged

RAAVAN2003 · Answer

Could anyone explain why not C ?

rak08 · Answer

Walter: For the economically privileged in a society to tolerate an  injustice perpetrated against one of society’s disadvantaged  is not only just morally wrong but also shortsighted: a system that inflicts an injustice on a disadvantaged person today can equally well inflict that same injustice on a well-to-do person tomorrow.

Larissa: In our society, the wealthy as well as the well-educated can protect themselves against  all sorts of injustices suffered by the less well-off . Allowing such injustices to persist is bad policy  not because it places everyone at equal risk of injustice  but because it is a potent source of social unrest.

(C) whether the disadvantaged members of society suffer from injustice

They both agree that the disadvantaged suffer from injustice.
just that Walter thinks "even" the well off could suffer from the same later
Larissa thinks well off can defend themselves but the reason why its a bad policy is because it creates social unrest.

question isnt about agreeing, its about disagreeing.

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