This question was one of the harder ones for me in this section. So, I thought I would share how I spotted the correct answer for anyone who might've come to the right answer the same way. I will be breaking down my (possibly convoluted) thought process in hopes that it helps at least one person lol.
While I immediately liked answer choice C) as soon as I saw it (more intuitively, it seemed to fill a missing part in the argument), I was still hesitant and stuck between D) and E) because I was not sure what missing part of the argument it seemed to fill.
However, the part of the missing argument that I felt C) touched on, that neither D) nor E) did, was the mention of the "given freedom" that shouldn't be denied in the stimulus. The stimulus uses the EXAMPLE of how one uses the POSSIBLE "given freedom" of choosing one's friends to allow for a less difficult means to live an enjoyable life. It doesn't stipulate that that is the ONLY freedom by which one can get to that enjoyable life.
The part that makes distinguishing that harder is that the stimulus continues using that specific example of the "possible freedom" (the freedom of choosing friends) throughout the argument and the conclusion. This makes one think that it is THAT specific freedom (i.e., freedom of choosing friends) that necessitates the means to an enjoyable life. However, staying true to the underlying understanding that the "thing" doing the work in the argument is the fact that it is a "GIVEN freedom" that HAS that ability (of allowing one to get to an enjoyable life), which should not be denied, is what makes answer choice C) the correct answer -- not so much that it is that specific freedom of choosing friends that is what supports the argument.
I don't know if this will make the most sense to everyone else, but I thought it couldn't hurt to share how I was able to spot the correct answer here :)
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This question was one of the harder ones for me in this section. So, I thought I would share how I spotted the correct answer for anyone who might've come to the right answer the same way. I will be breaking down my (possibly convoluted) thought process in hopes that it helps at least one person lol.
While I immediately liked answer choice C) as soon as I saw it (more intuitively, it seemed to fill a missing part in the argument), I was still hesitant and stuck between D) and E) because I was not sure what missing part of the argument it seemed to fill.
However, the part of the missing argument that I felt C) touched on, that neither D) nor E) did, was the mention of the "given freedom" that shouldn't be denied in the stimulus. The stimulus uses the EXAMPLE of how one uses the POSSIBLE "given freedom" of choosing one's friends to allow for a less difficult means to live an enjoyable life. It doesn't stipulate that that is the ONLY freedom by which one can get to that enjoyable life.
The part that makes distinguishing that harder is that the stimulus continues using that specific example of the "possible freedom" (the freedom of choosing friends) throughout the argument and the conclusion. This makes one think that it is THAT specific freedom (i.e., freedom of choosing friends) that necessitates the means to an enjoyable life. However, staying true to the underlying understanding that the "thing" doing the work in the argument is the fact that it is a "GIVEN freedom" that HAS that ability (of allowing one to get to an enjoyable life), which should not be denied, is what makes answer choice C) the correct answer -- not so much that it is that specific freedom of choosing friends that is what supports the argument.
I don't know if this will make the most sense to everyone else, but I thought it couldn't hurt to share how I was able to spot the correct answer here :)