so when a question asks to attack the argument, are we always attacking the reasoning (premises) rather than the conclusion?

when i went over C i thought that was just a crazy and big assumption to make so i crossed it out 😭😭

I treat it like a flaw question, find the flaw in the reasoning, and try to find the answer that patches up that gap, which strengthens the argument

#question How do we distinguish between WSE questions that rely on causal logic and questions that don't

Okay so I got this wrong, but now after understanding the subtle assumption of c, I get why it's the right answer.

The stimulus is saying because the U.S. participates in this practice, the health risk to U.S. consumers is going to greatly increase. And in my head during the test, I came up with a way to refute that reasoning what if the risk doesn't greatly increase and it just stays the same?

But I got this question wrong because no answer choice was capturing the intuition that I had. But after watching this explanation, C would capture that intuition because it says Countries other than the U.S. make that pesticide and its being imported here, regardless of the U.S. doing the practice, the risk to U.S. consumers is not greatly increased, it's just the same.