People CAN control some behaviors & People CANNOT control some behaviors. Now how can option B be correct. Isnt it contradicted by statement - People CANNOT control some behaviors. I am talking B is "people have control over all of their behavior" - is this statement different from B.
This is incorrect. Remember that the premises on critical reasoning are always things that you take as being true. When you have an inference question, you must treat all of the premises as true. So we must accept as a fact these two things:
1) People should be held accountable for their own behavior.
2) no person should be held accountable for behavior over which he or she had no control.
You have mis-stated the second part of this.
Lil' mentioned this above...You have stated this as "People CANNOT control some behaviors." This is not correct. Look at 2) above. When it says behavior he or she cannot control this can certainly mean the behavior of other people. Nowhere does this say that you can control of your behaviors, but it also certainly does not indicate any behaviors of YOURS that you cannot control. This statement can mean that I am not sent to jail if you steal someone's car because I cannot control you.
Combine the two statements above and the only way that they can both be true is if you ARE in control of your own behavior. Remember that each word is important and many times you cannot simply paraphrase but must stick exactly to what is said.
How i deduced E: People should be held accountable for their behavior. Now from this, a subset of people can be entailed capital punishment. BUT the truth that remains is that all of those people will get capital punishment would be first held accountable. ....(1)
Argument also says that no person should be held accountable for behavior over which he does not have control. That means all those people who are held accountable have control over their behavior. ....(2)
No here you have made some assumptions. First of all you assume that people are only given capital punishment for something that they can control. Remember that you only have the facts that they give you. The whole thing about capital punishment is only there to confuse you since it really does not say much. The stimulus simply says "if holding people accountable for their own behavior entails capital punishment, then so be it."
Now what does this really say? Does it say that ALL capital punishment is given out for behavior? Does it say that people are not given capital punishment for the way they look or who there family is? Do you see what I mean? You are taking the real world into account as well as things like fairness. You must not do this. Stick only to what is said.
And as far as D is concerned, we are not told anything about behavior that cannot be controlled. Perhaps people should be punished for some compulsive behavior, such as gambling or drug use.
