Self-study
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Summary
If an action has the potential to produce serious harm to one’s society, then one should not take that action.
Many people copy the public actions of celebrities and those who are widely respected.
Some celebrities do not vote.
Serious harm comes to societies in which many people don’t vote.
Notable Valid Inferences
Celebrities shouldn’t publicly refrain from voting.
Widely respected people shouldn’t refrain from voting.
1.
Which one of the following ██████████ ███ ██ ████████ ████████ ████ ███ ██████████ ██████
a
A society should ███████ ███ ███████████ ██ █████
Could be false. The stimulus discusses what actions individuals should not take; the stimulus does not discuss what society should require.
b
One should vote ████ ██ ███ ███████ ████ █████ ██ ████ █████ ████ █████ ██████ ██ ██ █████████
Could be false. (B) gives a necessary condition for when you should vote. The stimulus doesn’t allow us to infer any necessary conditions for voting.
c
Celebrities who do ███ ████ ██████ ███ ██ ██████ ██████████
Could be false. The stimulus doesn’t give any indication on who should or should not be widely respected.
d
People should not ███████ ███████████ ███ ███ ███ ██████ ██████████
Could be false. The stimulus doesn’t indicate who people should nor should not emulate. Additionally, we only know that people who are widely respected are widely emulated. We don’t know anything about people who aren’t widely respected.
e
Widely respected people ██████ ███ ████████ ███████ ████ ███████
Must be true. If an action could cause serious harm to society, then one shouldn’t take that action. Widely respected people’s public actions are widely emulated, and society is harmed when many people don’t vote, so widely respected people shouldn’t publicly refrain from voting.