PrepTest 41, Section 2, Question 22
If violations of any of a society's explicit rules routinely go unpunished, then that society's people will be left without moral guidance. Because people who lack moral guidance will act in many different ways, chaos results. Thus, a society ought never to allow any of its explicit rules to be broken with impunity.
If violations of any of a society's explicit rules routinely go unpunished, then that society's people will be left without moral guidance. Because people who lack moral guidance will act in many different ways, chaos results. Thus, a society ought never to allow any of its explicit rules to be broken with impunity.
If violations of any of a society's explicit rules routinely go unpunished, then that society's people will be left without moral guidance. Because people who lack moral guidance will act in many different ways, chaos results. Thus, a society ought never to allow any of its explicit rules to be broken with impunity.
If violations of any of a society's explicit rules routinely go unpunished, then that society's people will be left without moral guidance. Because people who lack moral guidance will act in many different ways, chaos results. Thus, a society ought never to allow any of its explicit rules to be broken with impunity.
The reasoning in the argument is most vulnerable to criticism on the grounds that the argument
takes for granted that a society will avoid chaos as long as none of its explicit rules are routinely violated with impunity
fails to consider that the violated rules might have been made to prevent problems that would not arise even if the rules were removed
infers, from the claim that the violation of some particular rules will lead to chaos, that the violation of any rule will lead to chaos
confuses the routine nonpunishment of violations of a rule with sometimes not punishing violations of the rule
takes for granted that all of a society's explicit rules result in equally serious consequences when broken
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