Critical Reasoning

Anthropologist: Violence is an extreme form of aggression, and is distinct from the self-expression sufficient for survival under normal conditions. Human beings in certain situations react to unpleasant stimuli with violence but only because they are conditioned by their culture to react in this manner.

Each of the following can be logically inferred from the anthropologist's statements EXCEPT:

(A) Not all aggression is violent.
(B) The self-expression required for survival is generally nonaggressive.
(C) Some behaviors are influenced by the cultures in which human beings live.
(D) In normal circumstance, human beings can survive by responding nonviolently.
(E) Violent behavior is a product of one's cultural environment.

Pick D .. No term like "Non-Violence is used"

IT should be B ....because self expression required generally is not violent but it may be aggressive as mentioned in first line....

selango wrote:Anthropologist: Violence is an extreme form of aggression, and is distinct from the self-expression sufficient for survival under normal conditions. Human beings in certain situations react to unpleasant stimuli with violence but only because they are conditioned by their culture to react in this manner.

Each of the following can be logically inferred from the anthropologist's statements EXCEPT:

(A) Not all aggression is violent.
(B) The self-expression required for survival is generally nonaggressive.
(C) Some behaviors are influenced by the cultures in which human beings live.
(D) In normal circumstance, human beings can survive by responding nonviolently.
(E) Violent behavior is a product of one's cultural environment.

B it is.

Argument says that the self-expression sufficient for survival

B says that self-expression required for survival

My choice is B.

I believe it can be inferred from the paragraph that Self expression can be nonviolent but not nonaggressive.

I will go with 'D'. Pls post OA.

B --> Self Exp is Non-Agressive (Not stated in the argu... there is no way you can infer that self agression = non-agression)

D--> can be inferred from the argu...because it claerly states that only incertain conditions ppl are violent (because of culture0..hence in other cases they must be non-violent

(just my 2 cents)

B. It says nonaggressive rather than nonviolent. The excerpt tells us that violence is distinct from self-expression sufficient for survival under normal conditions. Since violence is a subset of aggression (as indicated by the first sentence of the excerpt), there may indeed be possibility that sufficient self expression is aggressive (but not violent). Hence, B is the answer.