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by vaivish » Mon Aug 18, 2008 10:49 am
10. Lydia: Each year, thousands of seabirds are injured when they become entangled in equipment owned by fishing companies. Therefore, the fishing companies should assume responsibility for funding veterinary treatment for the injured birds.
Jonathan: Your feelings for the birds are admirable. Your proposal, however, should not be adopted because treatment of the most seriously injured birds would inhumanely prolong the lives of animals no longer able to live in the wild, as all wildlife should.
Jonathan uses which one of the following techniques in his response to Lydia?
(A) He directs a personal attack against her rather than addressing the argument she advances.
(B) He suggests that her proposal is based on self-interest rather than on real sympathy for the injured birds.
(C) He questions the appropriateness of interfering with wildlife in any way, even if the goal of the interference is to help.
(D) He attempts to discredit her proposal by discussing its implications for only those birds that it serves least well.
(E) He evades discussion of her proposal by raising the issue of whether her feelings about the birds are justified.
10. Lydia: Each year, thousands of seabirds are injured when they become entangled in equipment owned by fishing companies. Therefore, the fishing companies should assume responsibility for funding veterinary treatment for the injured birds.
Jonathan: Your feelings for the birds are admirable. Your proposal, however, should not be adopted because treatment of the most seriously injured birds would inhumanely prolong the lives of animals no longer able to live in the wild, as all wildlife should.
Jonathan uses which one of the following techniques in his response to Lydia?
(A) He directs a personal attack against her rather than addressing the argument she advances.
(B) He suggests that her proposal is based on self-interest rather than on real sympathy for the injured birds.
(C) He questions the appropriateness of interfering with wildlife in any way, even if the goal of the interference is to help.
(D) He attempts to discredit her proposal by discussing its implications for only those birds that it serves least well.
(E) He evades discussion of her proposal by raising the issue of whether her feelings about the birds are justified.


Oa is D.
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by youcan » Wed Aug 20, 2008 5:36 am
Can anybody explain ..

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by banker1 » Tue Aug 26, 2008 11:57 am
IMO: D

(A) does not apply

(B) does not apply, no where in the passage does he talk about her self-interests

(C) is too extreme IMO, in any way turned me off to this answer

(D) is exactly what he does, although the wording ...implications for only those birds that it serves least well. can be tricky.

(E) does not apply

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by nervesofsteel » Tue Aug 26, 2008 3:50 pm
IMO D

as the confusion is between C and D

and C goes to far in saying Questioning the proposal.. The argument never questions , it simply disowns the proposal of treating the birds....

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by stubbornp » Tue Aug 26, 2008 9:33 pm
imo D....

same as mention in paragraph...

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by jeffxujian » Wed Aug 27, 2008 3:22 pm
IMO D

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by James_83 » Mon Sep 01, 2008 6:53 pm
IMO D

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by NSNguyen » Sun Sep 07, 2008 7:34 am
imo: D
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by navami » Wed May 18, 2011 11:36 pm
COnfused between C and D and looking for better explainations :)
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by Geva@EconomistGMAT » Thu May 19, 2011 1:04 am
vaivish wrote:10. Lydia: Each year, thousands of seabirds are injured when they become entangled in equipment owned by fishing companies. Therefore, the fishing companies should assume responsibility for funding veterinary treatment for the injured birds.
Jonathan: Your feelings for the birds are admirable. Your proposal, however, should not be adopted because treatment of the most seriously injured birds would inhumanely prolong the lives of animals no longer able to live in the wild, as all wildlife should.
Jonathan uses which one of the following techniques in his response to Lydia?
(A) He directs a personal attack against her rather than addressing the argument she advances.
(B) He suggests that her proposal is based on self-interest rather than on real sympathy for the injured birds.
(C) He questions the appropriateness of interfering with wildlife in any way, even if the goal of the interference is to help.
(D) He attempts to discredit her proposal by discussing its implications for only those birds that it serves least well.
(E) He evades discussion of her proposal by raising the issue of whether her feelings about the birds are justified.
10. Lydia: Each year, thousands of seabirds are injured when they become entangled in equipment owned by fishing companies. Therefore, the fishing companies should assume responsibility for funding veterinary treatment for the injured birds.
Jonathan: Your feelings for the birds are admirable. Your proposal, however, should not be adopted because treatment of the most seriously injured birds would inhumanely prolong the lives of animals no longer able to live in the wild, as all wildlife should.
Jonathan uses which one of the following techniques in his response to Lydia?
(A) He directs a personal attack against her rather than addressing the argument she advances.
(B) He suggests that her proposal is based on self-interest rather than on real sympathy for the injured birds.
(C) He questions the appropriateness of interfering with wildlife in any way, even if the goal of the interference is to help.
(D) He attempts to discredit her proposal by discussing its implications for only those birds that it serves least well.
(E) He evades discussion of her proposal by raising the issue of whether her feelings about the birds are justified.


Oa is D.
The key here, as with all CR questions, is to come up with a prediction of what the right answer should do before going to the answer choices, and only then go to the answer choices to find one that says approximately what you had in mind.

Here, sum up what Jonathan is doing - he is giving an extreme example (probably not a prevalent one - only the most injured birds) where Lydia's proposal can lead to more bad than good. D is the only answer choice that says that in different words. C, the only (slightly) dangerous answer choice, is eliminated by the extreme "in any way", which is not what Jonathan is saying at all - he's presenting a specific case where interference with an injured wildlife is inadvisable. For D to be true, Jonathan should be saying "we should not help wildlife at all, since that is interfering" - but Jonathan limits his case only to extremely injured birds.
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