PT117.S3.Q9

PrepTest 117 - Section 3 - Question 9

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Rossi: Support It is undemocratic for people to live under a government in which their interests are not represented. ██ ████████ ██████ ████ ███ █████ ██ █████ █████ █████████ ███ █████████ ██ ████████ ███ █████████ ████ █████ ██ █████ ████████

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Rossi's Argument

Rossi claims that children should have the right to vote. To support this conclusion, Rossi states a principle that it is undemocratic for anyone to live under a government that doesn’t represent their interests. Rossi then points out a specific case where this principle is violated: children’s interests can differ from their parents’ interests.

Smith's Argument

Smith concludes that children should not be allowed to vote. Smith doesn't disagree with Rossi's premises that children's interests can differ from those of their parents, or that this makes it undemocratic to ban children from voting. However, Smith points out some new considerations: children often aren't informed of the issues, they oversimplify, and they think in the short term.

For Smith, these limitations seem to outweigh the risk of being undemocratic by banning children from voting. Smith doesn't deny that such a ban is undemocratic, but thinks it would nonetheless be worth it.

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Smith's argument doesn't actually discuss rights, and neither does Rossi's. We don't actually know if denying children the vote infringes on their rights. Even if it did, Smith supports this infringement as a necessary limitation.

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b

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(B) has a similar problem to (A): neither argument actually discusses rights. Since we don't know what rights children have, we can't say Smith's argument supports respecting those rights. If anything, it seems Smith doesn't respect at least one potential right: the right to vote.

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c

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Smith says that children aren't usually informed, which is just one reason they shouldn't vote. But Smith never says that any particular intervention would sufficiently inform children. In any case, Smith gives other reasons not to let children vote, even if they were informed.

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d

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Smith concedes that children's interests may not be represented if they can't vote, which according to Rossi is a limitation on democracy. But Smith thinks that children nonetheless should not be allowed to vote: there are too many drawbacks. Smith supports accepting this limitation on democracy.

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e

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Smith concedes that children's interests may not be represented by their parents, but never claims that someone else will represent children's interests. In fact, Smith seems to agree with Rossi that children's interests may just go unrepresented by anyone.

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