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Bureaucrat: Support The primary, constant goal of an ideal bureaucracy is to define and classify all possible problems and set out regulations regarding each eventuality. █████ ██ █████ ███████████ ████████ ██ ██████ █████████ ███ ███ ██████████ ██ █ █████████ ███████ ██ █████████████ ████████ ███ ███████████ ███ ████████ ██ █████ ███ ███ ██████ ███ ███ ████ ██████ ██ █████ ███████████ ████ ████ ██ ██████████████ ██████ ██ ████████████
Summary
In an ideal bureaucracy, regulations will always be expanding. The bureaucrat supports this by combining characteristics of an ideal bureaucracy with a conditional:
Characteristics: An ideal bureaucracy needs to solve all potential problems, and listen to complaints.
Conditional: If a complaint reveals a problem, regulations are expanded.
Notable Assumptions
The bureaucrat has made an assumption about the complaints. We were given a conditional that results in guaranteed regulation expansion (which is the conclusion we need), but we weren’t given a trigger for it.
We need to know that the complaints will not stop, and that ideal bureaucracies will always receive complaints that reveal new problems.
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a
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Defining, classifying, and setting regulations for all possible problems is the goal of an ideal bureaucracy, but the conclusion actually hinges on them never obtaining that goal; it’s about always having new problems to solve. (A) is saying that they will obtain that goal.
b
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It isn’t necessary that all problems solved by an ideal bureaucracy have come from complaints. It’s fine if the bureaucracy anticipates and solves some without any complaint about it.
c
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If negated, then an ideal bureaucracy will not always have a stream of complaints that reveal problems, so they will not be ceaselessly expanding regulations. The argument is ruined.
d
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We don’t need a biconditional between these things. The argument is not concerned with what is sufficient or necessary to achieve their goal—it is concluding a side-effect of pursuing that goal.
Also, we cannot invoke “system of regulations is always expanding” as a condition, because it is the thing we are trying to prove.
e
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Too strong. It isn’t necessary that each and every complaint reveal a problem, it’s only necessary that the complaints that do reveal a problem are frequent enough that regulations are ever-expanding.