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Resolve the Paradox. The correct answer choice is (D).
The Prime Minister acknowledges that, objectively speaking, everyone everywhere is of equal worth and that it is no more important to satisfy the needs of some people more than others. Despite this, though, he says that his government should prioritizing satisfying the needs of his nation's people over satisfying the needs of anyone else. We are asked to reconcile this apparent contradiction by introducing a principle - a guiding rule - that makes sense of the Prime Minister's position.
If there is no objective difference in worth between the people of one nation and another, then the rule must be about something that is NOT about objective importance or relative worth of the people involved. It must be about some other criterion. A principle which says something along the lines of "governments are supposed to take care of their own people first, regardless of importance or worth" would do the trick.
Answer choice (A): An opposite answer, this rule, if implemented, would suggest that the Prime Minister's country should not make any attempt to satisfy anyone's needs!
Answer choice (B): Another opposite answer! If this principle was followed, the Prime Minister's country should NOT give priority to its own people.
Answer choice (C): Yet another opposite answer here! We need an answer that indicates that the objective importance of satisfying a group's needs is NOT the main factor in determining whether to try satisfying their needs. We need a rule that focuses on some other criterion besides the importance of satisfying someone's needs or their worth.
Answer choice (D): This is the correct answer choice. In this answer we are finally seeing a rule that is not based on one group being more important or worthy than another, and which says, in essence, that each government should tend to their own people.
Answer choice (E): The stimulus says nothing about anyone who could not otherwise be helped, or whether the Prime Minister's people are such people, so this principle does nothing to clear up the issue about a government prioritizing the needs of their own people even though they are not any more important or worthy than others.
Resolve the Paradox. The correct answer choice is (D).
The Prime Minister acknowledges that, objectively speaking, everyone everywhere is of equal worth and that it is no more important to satisfy the needs of some people more than others. Despite this, though, he says that his government should prioritizing satisfying the needs of his nation's people over satisfying the needs of anyone else. We are asked to reconcile this apparent contradiction by introducing a principle - a guiding rule - that makes sense of the Prime Minister's position.
If there is no objective difference in worth between the people of one nation and another, then the rule must be about something that is NOT about objective importance or relative worth of the people involved. It must be about some other criterion. A principle which says something along the lines of "governments are supposed to take care of their own people first, regardless of importance or worth" would do the trick.
Answer choice (A): An opposite answer, this rule, if implemented, would suggest that the Prime Minister's country should not make any attempt to satisfy anyone's needs!
Answer choice (B): Another opposite answer! If this principle was followed, the Prime Minister's country should NOT give priority to its own people.
Answer choice (C): Yet another opposite answer here! We need an answer that indicates that the objective importance of satisfying a group's needs is NOT the main factor in determining whether to try satisfying their needs. We need a rule that focuses on some other criterion besides the importance of satisfying someone's needs or their worth.
Answer choice (D): This is the correct answer choice. In this answer we are finally seeing a rule that is not based on one group being more important or worthy than another, and which says, in essence, that each government should tend to their own people.
Answer choice (E): The stimulus says nothing about anyone who could not otherwise be helped, or whether the Prime Minister's people are such people, so this principle does nothing to clear up the issue about a government prioritizing the needs of their own people even though they are not any more important or worthy than others.