Politician: Homelessness is a serious social problem, but further government spending to provide low income housing ...
NativeJusticeApril 21, 2018
An attempt at explaining the falsehood of Answer choice B
Hi. Thanks for compiling this question into the practice set. It's really a good one.
I got this one wrong on answer B.
Here is an attempt of mine to explain the falsehood of Answer B. Please let me know if my thought is correct.
Since the conclusion is about the infertility of government spending on housing, the intention of the argument is not about the social phenomenon or whether the poors have housing. Answer B is therefore incorrect.
Is this a fair analysis?
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That's a good way to think about it. The way I would look at B is that it says essentially that homelessness being a serious problem is what the argument is trying to resolve. The politician, however, isn't concerned here about resolving this problem, just rejecting the idea that it has to do with a supply of affordable housing subsidized by the government.
C, however is true. Whether you agree with the politician's conclusion or not, homelessness may be a serious social problem. In fact, the politician could have completely avoided saying "homeless is a social problem," and his argument would have remained the same.
