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31%
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Students in a college ethics class were asked to judge whether two magazines had been morally delinquent in publishing a particular classified advertisement that was highly offensive in its demeaning portrayal of some people. They were told only that the first magazine had undertaken to screen all classified advertisements and reject for publication those it found offensive, whereas the second magazine’s policy was to publish any advertisement received from its subscribers. Most students judged the first magazine, but not the second, to have been morally delinquent in publishing the advertisement.
Which one of the following principles, if established, provides the strongest justification for the judgment that the first magazine and not the second was morally delinquent?
(A) It is wrong to publish messages that could cause direct or indirect harm to innocent people.
(B) Anyone regularly transmitting messages to the public has a moral responsibility to monitor the content of those messages.
(C) If two similar agents commit two similar actions, those agents should be held to the same standard of accountability.
(D) Failure to uphold a moral standard is not necessarily a moral failing except for those who have specifically committed themselves to upholding that standard.
(E) A magazine should not be considered at fault for publishing a classified advertisement if that advertisement would not be offensive to any of the magazine’s subscribers.
Which one of the following principles, if established, provides the strongest justification for the judgment that the first magazine and not the second was morally delinquent?
(A) It is wrong to publish messages that could cause direct or indirect harm to innocent people.
(B) Anyone regularly transmitting messages to the public has a moral responsibility to monitor the content of those messages.
(C) If two similar agents commit two similar actions, those agents should be held to the same standard of accountability.
(D) Failure to uphold a moral standard is not necessarily a moral failing except for those who have specifically committed themselves to upholding that standard.
(E) A magazine should not be considered at fault for publishing a classified advertisement if that advertisement would not be offensive to any of the magazine’s subscribers.
23 Oct 2021, 02:30
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EXPLANATION FROM POWER SCORE
This stimulus presents an experiment wherein students in an ethics class consider two different publications, both of which have published a demeaning and offensive classified ad, to determine if either publication has exhibited moral delinquency by publishing it. While the first publication had undertaken to monitor the ads, the policy of the second was to publish any ad that had been paid for.
Most of the students in the study believed the first publication to be morally delinquent, and the second not to be. The principle reflected here appears to be something like "if you undertake to monitor, your failure to filter is more offensive."
The question stem requires that we find the answer choice which most strengthens the assertion that only the one that has committed to monitoring, filtering, and prohibiting objectionable materials.
Answer choice (A): Since both magazines published the ad in question, this answer choice fails to provide a justifiable way to distinguish between the two magazines, and thus cannot be correct.
Answer choice (B): Like answer choice (A) above, this choice would apply to both magazines in question, so this could not be a justification for finding only one of the magazines morally delinquent.
Answer choice (C): This answer choice would lead one to treat the two magazines as equal, rather than providing grounds for distinguishing them, so this cannot be the right answer choice.
Answer choice (D): This is the correct answer choice. Applying this answer choice to the stimulus, failure to filter out objectionable ads is not necessarily a moral failing except for the publication which had specifically committed to undertake such filtering.
Answer choice (E): This choice does not apply to the stimulus, because both magazines published ads that may have offended some of their readers. This choice does not justify finding only the first magazine morally delinquent, so this answer choice is incorrect.
06 Nov 2021, 12:00
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EXPLANATION FROM Fox LSAT
First Magazine supposedly screened the content of its advertisements, and Second Magazine did not. An advertisement for Highly Offensive LLC appeared in both magazines. Students in an ethics class judged First Magazine to be morally delinquent, and did not judge Second Magazine to be morally delinquent. Is that really fair? We are asked to “justify” the students’ reasoning. That means we need to find an additional premise that, if true, would prove the students’ conclusion correct.
It seems as if the students think that if you screen your ads, then you are responsible for publishing offensive ****. But the students think that if you do not screen your ads, then you are not responsible for publishing offensive ****. If that is a valid principle to operate under, then they came to the correct judgment. So that’s what we should look for in the answer choices. Let’s see.
A) Causing harm is mentioned nowhere in the argument. This can’t possibly be the principle that guided the students’ judgment.
B) If this were the principle, then wouldn’t the students have judged both magazines morally delinquent?
C) Again, if this were the principle, then wouldn’t the students have judged both magazines morally delinquent (or both morally innocent)?
D) Okay, this sounds pretty good. First Magazine specifically committed themselves to upholding a certain standard, so they are morally delinquent when they fail to do so. Second Magazine made no such commitment, so they can’t be held morally delinquent. This seems like a good fit, and it’s similar to our prediction, so it’s probably our answer.
E) We have no idea whether the subscribers would have found the ad offensive, therefore this premise wouldn't support the conclusion.
Our answer is D, because it’s the only one that makes the students’ judgment correct.
