QUESTION TEXT: Well-intentioned people sometimes attempt to…
QUESTION TYPE: Principle – Justify
CONCLUSION: The attempts are usually unjustified.
REASONING: Well intentioned friends sometimes try to fix marital problems. The attempts usually don’t work.
ANALYSIS: On principle–justify questions, you must connect the facts in the stimulus to the moral conclusion. The conclusion says the attempts are “unjustified”.
To prove this correct, the answer will say something like “If attempts don’t work, they’re unjustified.”
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- This answer can’t help prove the attempts were unjustified. The friends were well intentioned. So it sounds like the friends might have been aiming for “the best overall consequences”.
- The friends were trying to do what they thought was right, but it had bad consequences. Therefore, this answer suggests the friends were correct to try, despite failing. That’s the opposite of what we want to prove.
- The friends were well intentioned. So this answer says that the friends had legitimate grounds. But we’re trying to prove the friends were not justified.
- Close, but irrelevant isn’t enough. We need to prove that the attempts were actually unjustified.
- CORRECT. This says: Justified ➞ success. The contrapositive is
success➞justified
This works. The friends weren’t successful. So according to this answer, their attempts were unjustified.
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