PrepTest 143 - Section 2 - Passage 3 - Question 18

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Augustine's view · Don't lie to liars

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Author's concession · Some truth behind Augustine's view

General opinion · Many think lying to liars feels fair

People think that liars forfeit right to be told the truth.

Two moral questions · (1) Does liar have right to be told truth? (2) Are we more justified in lying to a liar?

Author's view · Liar forfeits right to truth, but we shouldn't automatically lie to him

We need to consider potential harm to ourselves and society when considering whether to lie to him.

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View derived from Kant · Acting toward someone as they have acted toward others treats that person as a rational being

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We only need to consider passage A for this one. We can’t predict the answer, so we should use POE on the answer choices, keeping in mind the author’s overall argument: someone who acts immorally has no right to complain about being treated in the same way, but that doesn’t mean we’re justified in inflicting such treatment on that person.

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Unsupported. Author A doesn’t engage with the ideas of rational beings or respect. That’s all author B.

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Unsupported. Author A doesn’t engage with the idea of duty. That’s author B. (And author B would disagree with this claim.)

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Strongly supported. Author A makes this point in P4.

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Unsupported—too strong. In P4, author A brings up a single circumstance in which there’s not sufficient reason to counter a wrong with a wrong of the same kind. But that doesn’t suggest there can’t ever be sufficient reason.

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Unsupported. Author A only considers the rights of those who have actually acted immorally.

PrepTest 143 - Section 2 - Passage 3 - Question 18

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