PT129.S3.Q19

PrepTest 129 - Section 3 - Question 19

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Essayist: Support One of the drawbacks of extreme personal and political freedom is that free choices are often made for the worst. ██ ██████ ██████ ██ ██████ ████ ████ ███ █████ ███ ███████ ██ ████ ██████ █████████ ██ ██████████ ████████████ ████ ██████ ███ ███ ███████████ ████████████ ██ ███████ ████████ ████ ███ ██████ ██ █████████ ████████████ █████████ ███████ ████ █████ █████████ ██ ████████ █████ ███ ██████ ███ ███████ █████████ ███████ ████ █████ ███████ ████████

Summary

The essayist concludes that one shouldn’t support political systems that allow extreme freedom. As support, he says that extreme freedom often has negative consequences, and when people see those consequences, they might prefer to establish totalitarian regimes.

Notable Assumptions

The essayist’s conclusion is that one shouldn’t support extreme freedom, but his premises— that its consequences could lead people to prefer totalitarian regimes— never address why one should or shouldn’t support extreme freedom. He assumes that one shouldn’t support it because of the potential effect of its consequences.

To help justify his reasoning, we need a principle that satisfies this assumption by confirming that one shouldn’t support a political system if its consequences could cause people to prefer totalitarian regimes.

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19.

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a

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b

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c

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d

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e

One should not ███████ ███ █████████ ██████ ████ ██ █████ ██ ███████████ ████████████ █████ ████████ ████████ █████ ████ ███████

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