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shunhe on December 18, 2020

Hi @mprezzy,

Thanks for the question! So we’re being asked here for what completes the argument in the stimulus. Let’s figure out what the stimulus says. We’re told that some people don’t like unpleasant truths. Others want to know everything. So then we need to figure out what happens if the first group of people follow the “golden rule.”

Clearly, if they do, they’d annoy the second group, so the answer choice will probably say something like that. And that’s what (B) does.

(D) says that the people in the second group will respond by doing what the first group wants. But we can’t say that based on the stimulus. we have no clue how they’d react. Maybe they’d ignore it and do what the first group would prefer, maybe they’d get annoyed and start telling them everything to annoy them back. We just don’t know either way, so we can’t say (D) is the best answer.

Hope this helps! Feel free to ask any other questions that you might have.

shunhe on December 18, 2020

Hi @mprezzy,

Thanks for the question! So we’re being asked here for what completes the argument in the stimulus. Let’s figure out what the stimulus says. We’re told that some people don’t like unpleasant truths. Others want to know everything. So then we need to figure out what happens if the first group of people follow the “golden rule.”

Clearly, if they do, they’d annoy the second group, so the answer choice will probably say something like that. And that’s what (B) does.

(D) says that the people in the second group will respond by doing what the first group wants. But we can’t say that based on the stimulus. we have no clue how they’d react. Maybe they’d ignore it and do what the first group would prefer, maybe they’d get annoyed and start telling them everything to annoy them back. We just don’t know either way, so we can’t say (D) is the best answer.

Hope this helps! Feel free to ask any other questions that you might have.