A
Preschoolers have a tendency to imitate adults, and most adults follow strict routines.
B
Children intensely curious about new things have very short attention spans.
C
Some older children also develop strict systems that help them learn.
D
Preschoolers ask as many creative questions as do older children.
E
Preschool teachers generally report lower levels of stress than do other teachers.
Jurist: A nation’s laws must be viewed as expressions of a moral code that transcends those laws and serves as a measure of their adequacy. Otherwise, a society can have no sound basis for preferring any given set of laws to all others. Thus, any moral prohibition against the violation of statutes must leave room for exceptions.
Summary
A nation’s laws must be based on a moral code.
The moral code provides the basis for evaluating laws (E.g., if a law abides by the moral code, it is adequate; if it doesn’t, it’s inadequate.)
Any moral rule that mandates compliance with the law must allow for exceptions. In other words, there are times when moral rules require that the law should not be followed.
Very Strongly Supported Conclusions
There must be occasions when strict compliance with a nation’s laws would lead to violating the nation’s moral code.
A
Those who formulate statutes are not primarily concerned with morality when they do so.
Unsupported. The stimulus tells us that a nation’s laws can be understood as expressions of a moral code, which indicates that lawmakers are probably consciously or unconsciously deeply concerned with morality when they write said laws.
B
Sometimes criteria other than the criteria derived from a moral code should be used in choosing one set of laws over another.
Anti-supported. The stimulus says that, without a moral code, there would be no sound basis for choosing one set of laws over another. In other words, the moral code is the only thing that allows a society to effectively compare the adequacy of different laws.
C
Unless it is legally forbidden ever to violate some moral rules, moral behavior and compliance with laws are indistinguishable.
Unsupported. (C) says: “if it it’s legally permitted to violate some moral rules, then behaving morally is the same as complying with the law.” The stimulus doesn’t discuss legal permissibility of violating moral rules, so we can’t infer anything from that sufficient condition.
D
There is no statute that a nation’s citizens have a moral obligation to obey.
Anti-supported. Statutes can be viewed as expressions of a moral code, so the nation’s citizens presumably have a moral obligation to obey at least some statutes!
E
A nation’s laws can sometimes come into conflict with the moral code they express.
Very strongly supported. The author’s conclusion is that moral mandates to follow the law need to allow for exceptions. So we can infer that there are times when the moral thing is actually not to follow the law, because the law conflicts with the nation’s moral code!
Correction: At 0:22 J.Y. mistakenly says that (E) is the right answer choice. (C) is the actual right answer choice.
Correction: At 0:22 J.Y. mistakenly says that (E) is the right answer choice. (C) is the actual right answer choice.
A
equates the quality of care at a hospital with patients’ average length of stay
B
treats a condition that will ensure the preservation of quality of care as a condition that is required to preserve quality of care
C
fails to take into account the possibility that patients at Edgewater Hospital tend to be treated for different illnesses than patients at University Hospital
D
presumes, without providing justification, that the length of time patients stay in the hospital is never relevant to the recovery rates of these patients
E
fails to take into account the possibility that patients at University Hospital generally prefer longer hospital stays