and your point is...?

sankruth · Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 12:58 pm Post subject: and your point is...?

Can someone please explain the central point of this argument?... and by the way, while you are at it can you also please find the correct choice with explanation (Sorry, I know Im asking too much!)

George Bernard Shaw wrote: “That any sane nation, having observed that you could provide for the supply of bread by giving bakers a pecuniary interest in baking for you, should go on to give a surgeon a pecuniary interest in cutting off your leg is enough to make one despair of political humanity.”

Shaw’s statement would best serve as an illustration in an argument criticizing which of the following?
(A) Dentists who perform unnecessary dental work in order to earn a profit
(B) Doctors who increase their profits by specializing only in diseases that affect a large percentage of the population
(C) Grocers who raise the price of food in order to increase their profit margins
(D) Oil companies that decrease the price of their oil in order to increase their market share
(E) Bakers and surgeons who earn a profit by supplying other peoples’ basic needs

Guest · Test Date: March

what is the OA??
I would with D because oil companies are trying to allure customers by giving cost incentives...same as in the shaw qoute....

please correct me if i am wrong.

sankruth · Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 12:18 am Post subject:

sujaysolanki · Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 1:36 am Post subject:

Not that easy but here is what i feel Smile

there is monetary profit in baking, bakers are baking the bread for the nation. not to feed the people.
in the same way dentists are also doing the job since there is money in it.

Hence we need some choioce which is soing its works for the money not for the job itself

Hence is think is shd be A

sankruth · Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 4:23 am Post subject:

Thanks Sujay! You must be correct since your answer matches with OA.