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I got this wrong initially by marking down A but the correct answer is E. This stimulus tells us a few things
- people cannot be morally responsible for things they can't control
- so people cannot be morally responsible for inevitable consequences of things they can't control either
It can be hard to tell whether adults can be held morally responsible for the treatment they receive because its hard to know if that is on their control or not.
Sometimes people's actions are the inevitable consequences of the treatment they received when they were an infant (and since infants can't control anything they can't be morally responsible for receiving that treatment).
What absolutely MUST be true here?
A. an infant's actions are not on the chopping block here + never is really strong language
B. maybe this is true but it feels really tangential
C. this concept of partial responsibility does not exist anywhere in the stimulus we are operating in a binary universe
D. we know that the statement (people cannot be morally responsible for things they can't control and the inevitable consequences of things they can't control) is true but this offers a false contraposition of that statement (suff - neck confusion)
E. If everyone sometimes performs acts for which they are not morally responsible, that means that no-one should be held morally responsible for every act one performs.
Admin Note: Edited title. For LR questions, please use the format: "PT#.S#.Q# - brief description of the question."