#26 - Specific Reference, Must Be True, Purpose/Function

[Administrator]

Complete Question Explanation

The correct answer choice is (D).

Answer choice (A):

Answer choice (B):

Answer choice (C):

Answer choice (D): This is the correct answer choice.

Answer choice (E):

This explanation is still in progress. Please post any questions below!

[ROMI92]

Hi, can someone please post why E is incorrect and D is correct?

[Adam Tyson]

Happy to help, ROMI92! First, the entire final paragraph is part of the argument in support of the last sentence in the first paragraph, which claims that philosophical anarchism doesn't mean that all governments are morally the same and that people have no moral obligations. So the purpose of that sentence is to show that philosophical anarchists do indeed believe that we have certain moral duties.

The sentence they ask about in that question is this one:

Moreover, philosophical anarchists hold that people have a positive moral obligation to care for one another, a moral obligation that they might even choose to discharge by supporting cooperative efforts by governments to help those in need.

This is about our obligation to DO something. Answer E is about an obligation NOT to do something, like not murder each other. The author did make that claim, too, but it was in the previous sentence, not the one we were asked about. That's why E is a wrong answer; it's not describing the lines we were asked about!