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#90626
Complete Question Explanation
Strengthen, Principle. The correct answer choice is (A).
With every Strengthen question, it is crucial to identify the author's main conclusion. In this stimulus, it's the first sentence: the park ranger believes it is unfair to cite people for fishing in the newly restricted areas. They defend this position by stating that people are probably unaware of the changes in regulations, since many rangers themselves have not yet been informed of them. The ranger then states that no more than a warning should be issued until a real effort is made to publicize the new restrictions.
As reasonable as the park ranger's argument is, the question of awareness is not airtight. Someone could respond by saying the law is the law, and should be enforced whether a violator is aware of the law or not. To strengthen this argument, we should look for an answer choice that says that a lack of awareness is an acceptable defense against receiving a citation.
Answer choice (A): This is the correct answer choice. Yes! Right at the top, we get an answer choice that resolves the issue we saw with with the park ranger's argument.
Answer choice (B): This is an inherent premise in the author's argument, but doesn't strengthen it.
Answer choice (C): Even if we accept this as true, it doesn't strengthen the park ranger's argument against issuing citations because the objection we saw earlier still stands. Whether the public knows less, as much as, or more than law enforcement officials do, it doesn't matter: the law is the law, and any violator should be cited. Remember the conclusion of the argument; the best answer is likely going to mention the citation explicitly as that was what the author's conclusion was about.
Answer choice (D): Seems reasonable, but this doesn't strengthen the author's argument. We need a way to resolve the awareness objection, and this doesn't cut it.
Answer choice (E): Even if this was true, the awareness objection still stands.
Strengthen, Principle. The correct answer choice is (A).
With every Strengthen question, it is crucial to identify the author's main conclusion. In this stimulus, it's the first sentence: the park ranger believes it is unfair to cite people for fishing in the newly restricted areas. They defend this position by stating that people are probably unaware of the changes in regulations, since many rangers themselves have not yet been informed of them. The ranger then states that no more than a warning should be issued until a real effort is made to publicize the new restrictions.
As reasonable as the park ranger's argument is, the question of awareness is not airtight. Someone could respond by saying the law is the law, and should be enforced whether a violator is aware of the law or not. To strengthen this argument, we should look for an answer choice that says that a lack of awareness is an acceptable defense against receiving a citation.
Answer choice (A): This is the correct answer choice. Yes! Right at the top, we get an answer choice that resolves the issue we saw with with the park ranger's argument.
Answer choice (B): This is an inherent premise in the author's argument, but doesn't strengthen it.
Answer choice (C): Even if we accept this as true, it doesn't strengthen the park ranger's argument against issuing citations because the objection we saw earlier still stands. Whether the public knows less, as much as, or more than law enforcement officials do, it doesn't matter: the law is the law, and any violator should be cited. Remember the conclusion of the argument; the best answer is likely going to mention the citation explicitly as that was what the author's conclusion was about.
Answer choice (D): Seems reasonable, but this doesn't strengthen the author's argument. We need a way to resolve the awareness objection, and this doesn't cut it.
Answer choice (E): Even if this was true, the awareness objection still stands.
