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Anger in response to insults is unreasonable. Why? Insults are just assertions that you have undesirable characteristics. If someone insults you and their assertion is false, you should pity their ignorance. If their assertion is true, you should be grateful to receive the information.

The conclusion is about anger being unreasonable, but the premises never discuss unreasonableness.

How to get from premises to conclusion? According to the premises, when insulted, you should either feel pity or gratitude. We can infer the argument’s conclusion if we assume that anger is unjustified when you’re responding to a situation that makes you feel pity or gratitude.

According to the premises, ignorance is only one of the potential prompts for an insult. For anger to be unjustified in response to all insults, then anger caused by an insult that should cause gratitude must be ruled out as unreasonable, as well.

According to the premises, providing useful information is only one of the potential reasons for an insult. For anger to be unjustified in response to all insults, then anger in response to ignorance must be ruled out as unreasonable, as well.

According to the premises, anger should either prompt pity or gratitude. If (C) is true, we can infer that anger in response to insults is unreasonable.

We already know, based on the premises, that gratitude and pity are reasonable responses in some scenarios. The correct answer choice must explain why anger is an unreasonable response to insults.

The argument isn’t concerned with how you should respond to people with undesirable characteristics. Rather, it’s concerned with whether anger is a reasonable response to insults.

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