QUESTION TEXT: In order to pressure the government of Country S…
QUESTION TYPE: Necessary Assumption
CONCLUSION: The manufacturers think they should be allowed to export their telecommunications products to repressive countries.
REASONING: They say it’s impossible for a country to be repressive if the population can use telecommunications equipment.
ANALYSIS: Who’s to say the government won’t just keep the telecommunications equipment for itself? The manufacturers’ argument depends on the population having access to the equipment.
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- The manufacturers are arguing that they should be allowed to export their goods. As long as country S will allow some goods to be imported, then there is a purpose to allowing exports.
- CORRECT. If this were false, then the population would not have access to the telecommunications equipment, whether or not exports were allowed.
- This talks about whether the plan is likely to succeed. It’s just a statement of fact. The manufacturers were talking about what should happen.
- It doesn’t matter if there are better ways to oppose the government. It only matters that the telecommunications equipment will help with that goal.
- So what if R can’t succeed on its own? Country R might still contribute to ending repression. But this is not really related to the main question: will telecommunications exports help bring down government S, or will they help keep it in power?
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