Q5 - Walter: For the economically privileged

[sujin91]

Please explain why answer choice D is correct. Am I missing something here? I chose answer choice C. Please explain why C is wrong and E is right. Thank you

[ohthatpatrick]

The correct answer to this question has to be something that one of these people would agree with, the other person would disagree with.

If we're picking (C), we're saying,
one of these people thinks: disadvantaged people DO suffer from injustice
the other person thinks: disadvantaged people DON'T suffer from injustice

Who's who there? Which one is Walter, which one is Larissa?

It seems to me like they both agree that disadvantaged people suffer.

So that's why (C) is wrong. There ARE some versions of this question that ask "what do both of these people AGREE about", but the vast majority with two people arguing ask "what do they DISAGREE about".

It's a good habit, once you've read both people's paragraphs, to read the 2nd person's and ask yourself, "which line here goes AGAINST something the 1st person said".

It looks like Larissa's 2nd sentence is where the disagreement occurs. She says, "Allowing these injustices is bad policy not because it places everyone at equal risk of injustice but because it ...."

So I would ask myself, "Did Walter think that these injustices were bad because they place everyone at equal risk of injustice?"

Yup. Walter's last thought is that "a system that inflicts injustice on a disadvantaged person can equally well inflict that same injustice on a well-to-do person."

So this is clearly the disconnect, and (E) is the answer that most directly deals with that language.

Larissa believes that privileged members are LESS exposed to some injustice, while Walter believes that privileged members are EQUALLY exposed to some injustice.

== other answers ==

(A) neither one addresses "social fabric"

(B) neither one addresses extremes such as "most successful" and "least tolerant"

(D) neither one addresses the extreme of "most advantages" and neither discusses any "moral obligation".

Hope this helps.