PT145.S2.Q8

PrepTest 145 - Section 2 - Question 8

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Summary

The author advocates for more education on the ethics of internet use in order to resolve the problem of people feeling a lack of moral responsibility for their actions online.

Notable Assumptions

The argument identifies a problem associated with the internet—its impersonal nature makes people feel less responsible for their wrongdoings when using it. However, the author merely assumes that more ethical education will help fix this problem.

To help justify this conclusion, we’re looking for a principle that confirms that ethical education increases people’s feelings of moral responsibility when they’re engaging with a medium like the internet.

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8.

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a

Education about the ███████ ███ ██ █ ████ █████████ █████ █████ ██ █████ ██████████████ █████████ ███ ████

b

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c

The more educated ████ ██████ ███ █████ ███ ███████ █████ ██ ███ █████████ ███ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████ ████ ████ ███ ██ ██ ███████

d

People feel morally ███████████ ████ █████ ██ ██████ ████ ██ ████ ██████ ██████ ████ ██ ███████

e

People who harm ██████ ███████ ██████████ █████ ███ ██ ████ ████████ ███ █████ ███████ ████ ███ ██████ ███ ████ ██████ ██ ███████

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