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The author concludes that, even if it’s stealing, it’s okay for the government to take money from burglars’ paychecks. Why? It would be for a good cause—funding a program to help repay burglary victims.

The author wants to prove that it’s okay to steal in some instances, but she doesn’t provide us with a premise that tells us what those instances are. She’s assuming that stealing for the purpose of repaying burglary victims makes it okay, so our answer choice will articulate this assumption:

Stealing is okay if it’s for a good cause.

Wrong trigger. The money from burglars’ paychecks will be put into a fund to help out victims in general. It won’t be given to each specific burglar’s victims, so we can’t use this rule.

(C) is slightly broader than our prediction, but that’s okay for this question type. This rule applies to all actions, and stealing from burglars is a subset of all actions. As such, if the motive decides whether an action is okay or not, then the motive of helping out burglary victims makes stealing from burglars okay.

Leads to the wrong conclusion. If the sufficient and necessary conditions were swapped, this would support our conclusion; (D), however, only lets us prove that stealing from burglars is not justified, not that it is.

(E) hurts our argument. If stealing is never justified, then why is it suddenly okay to steal from burglars?

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