QUESTION TEXT: Historian: Anyone who thinks that the terrors…
QUESTION TYPE: Principle – Strengthen
CONCLUSION: Some regular citizens of Q were murderers.
REASONING: The government was mostly made up of ordinary people.
ANALYSIS: If a soldier kills an enemy in a war, is it murder? If a warden executes a prisoner in a jail, is that murder?
They’re both types of killing, but not every type of killing is necessarily murder. Likewise, the historian hasn’t shown that the killings in Q were murder. The right answer supports the idea that the political killings were murder.
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- No one talked about murder being justified.
- The historian didn’t say fanaticism was justified. And he argued that not every regime member was a fanatic.
- CORRECT. There are different types of killing, not all of them murder. This lets us call what the citizens did “murder”, which support the historian’s conclusion.
- The historian didn’t mention inhumanity.
- The historian was arguing that some citizens weren’t fanatics.
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