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Complete Question Explanation
Weaken. The correct answer choice is (B)
This columnist discusses the standard practice of some companies, whose managers annually donate a portion of company profits to charity. The author asserts that this practice is not as justified or as admirable as it might seem, because the corporate profits belong to the owners of the company, not to the managers who make such donations. The author compares the practice to those of Robin Hood, who robbed from the rich to give to the poor, but who was a thief regardless.
The stimulus is followed by a Weaken question, so the correct answer choice will undermine the author’s characterization of corporate charitable giving as unjustified theft.
Answer choice (A): The author is concerned with the portion that is given away to charity, comparing the practice to theft. Even if, as this choice provides, the owners get to keep some of their profits, this would not undermine the author’s argument, so this choice should be eliminated from contention.
Answer choice (B): This is the correct answer choice. If the managers who give a portion of corporate profits do so with the understood consent of the companies’ owners, then the author’s characterization of the practice as theft no longer holds.
Answer choice (C): This choice, which provides that managers give part of their own income as well, might make them seem more charitable, but it does not weaken the author’s characterization of them as charitable thieves.
Answer choice (D): The author of the passage is not concerned about whether or not the charitable donations are put to good use. The author sees the donations as theft, because the people making the decision to donate are not the owners of company. Since this choice does not undermine the author’s argument it cannot be the correct answer choice.
Answer choice (E): The stimulus does not deal with the charities’ solicitation policies, or the issue of whom they choose to solicit, so this choice does not weaken the author’s argument that the corporate givers are like modern day Robin Hoods.
Weaken. The correct answer choice is (B)
This columnist discusses the standard practice of some companies, whose managers annually donate a portion of company profits to charity. The author asserts that this practice is not as justified or as admirable as it might seem, because the corporate profits belong to the owners of the company, not to the managers who make such donations. The author compares the practice to those of Robin Hood, who robbed from the rich to give to the poor, but who was a thief regardless.
The stimulus is followed by a Weaken question, so the correct answer choice will undermine the author’s characterization of corporate charitable giving as unjustified theft.
Answer choice (A): The author is concerned with the portion that is given away to charity, comparing the practice to theft. Even if, as this choice provides, the owners get to keep some of their profits, this would not undermine the author’s argument, so this choice should be eliminated from contention.
Answer choice (B): This is the correct answer choice. If the managers who give a portion of corporate profits do so with the understood consent of the companies’ owners, then the author’s characterization of the practice as theft no longer holds.
Answer choice (C): This choice, which provides that managers give part of their own income as well, might make them seem more charitable, but it does not weaken the author’s characterization of them as charitable thieves.
Answer choice (D): The author of the passage is not concerned about whether or not the charitable donations are put to good use. The author sees the donations as theft, because the people making the decision to donate are not the owners of company. Since this choice does not undermine the author’s argument it cannot be the correct answer choice.
Answer choice (E): The stimulus does not deal with the charities’ solicitation policies, or the issue of whom they choose to solicit, so this choice does not weaken the author’s argument that the corporate givers are like modern day Robin Hoods.