Dec. 2006 LR Section II Q.23

[kkauf11]

Hi,

I'm having a hard time understanding this question. I found the wording of the answer choices to be really confusing and am hoping someone can explain the correct answer to me.

Thanks!

[Emily Haney-Caron]

Hi kkauf,

Thanks for the question! In answer choice B, the "observation" is that we consider people who have resisted a desire to be successfully virtuous. The claim the argument concludes is false is that someone doesn't deserve praise for doing the right thing if they weren't tempted to do the wrong thing. So B is saying the observation that we consider people who resist desire to be especially virtuous isn't sufficient to lead us to conclude that people who do not resist a desire but do the right thing are not virtuous/deserving of praise.

Does that help?

[kkauf11]

Yes, thanks so much!