[求助]XDF小蓝（商学院入学考试指导）上的逻辑题

manliangiggs · 发表于 2008-10-4 14:00:00

127 Geoge Bernard Shaw wrote:" That any sane nation, having observed that you could provide for the supply of bread by giving bakers a pecuniary interest in baking for you, should go on to give a surgeon a pecuniary interest in cutting off your leg is enough to make one despair of political humanity"

Shaw's statement would best serve as an illustration in an arguement criticizing which of the following ?

A.Dentists who perform unnecessary dental work in order to earn a profit.

B.Doctors who increase their profits by specializing only in diseases that affect a large percentage of the population.

C.Grocers who raise the price of food in order to increase their profit margins.

D.Oil companies that decrease the price of their oil in order to increase their marked share.

E.Bakers and surgeons who earn a profit by supplying other people's basic needs.

我选的是（D),但答案给的是（A)，很奇怪啊，会不会是答案错了？哪位高人能指点迷津？谢谢了。

jh1904 · 发表于 2008-10-4 18:22:00

Bernard Shaw was basically saying that it's insane to give monetary incentive to a surgeon for cutting off legs. Below is the first paragraph of the original text.

It is not the fault of our doctors that the medical service of the community, as at present provided for, is a murderous absurdity. That any sane nation, having observed that you could provide for the supply of bread by giving bakers a pecuniary interest in baking for you, should go on to give a surgeon a pecuniary interest in cutting off your leg, is enough to make one despair of political humanity. But that is precisely what we have done. And the more appalling the mutilation, the more the mutilator is paid. He who corrects the ingrowing toe-nail receives a few shillings: he who cuts your inside out receives hundreds of guineas, except when he does it to a poor person for practice.

Obviously, A is the closest situation that Bernard Shaw would criticize.

manliangiggs · 发表于 2008-10-4 19:32:00

兄台还是不太理解呀，能用汉语在解释一下么？实在不好意思，谢谢了。

jh1904 · 发表于 2008-10-5 15:52:00

给钱，就有烘焙师傅给你作面包；给钱，就有外科医生来切除你的腿。

给越多钱就切越多腿。

Second paragraph in the original text :

Scandalized voices murmur that these operations are unnecessary. They may be. It may also be necessary to hang a man or pull down a house. But we take good care not to make the hangman and the housebreaker the judges of that. If we did, no man's neck would be safe and no man's house stable. But we do make the doctor the judge, and fine him anything from sixpence to several hundred guineas if he decides in our favor. I cannot knock my shins severely without forcing on some surgeon the difficult question, "Could I not make a better use of a pocketful of guineas than this man is making of his leg? Could he not write as well--or even better--on one leg than on two? And the guineas would make all the difference in the world to me just now. My wife--my pretty ones-- the leg may mortify--it is always safer to operate--he will be well in a fortnight--artificial legs are now so well made that they are really better than natural ones--evolution is towards motors and leglessness, etc., etc., etc."

manliangiggs · 发表于 2008-10-5 16:23:00

那他又怎么就批评批评了A呢？

jh1904 · 发表于 2008-10-5 17:26:00

我没法很好的翻译

That any sane nation, having observed that you could provide for the supply of bread by giving bakers a pecuniary interest in baking for you, should go on to give a surgeon a pecuniary interest in cutting off your leg is enough to make one despair of political humanity

基本上，这句话的意思是：任何有理性的国家，以为给钱，就有烘焙师傅给你作面包；所以给钱，就有外科医生来切除你的腿，就没救了。

隐含的意思在第二段说得更清楚，医生可能为了钱而作不必要的手术。

The name of the play is actually "The Doctors' Dilemma".

manliangiggs · 发表于 2008-10-5 22:07:00

真的是太谢谢你了，我就是没太理解这段话。

[求助]XDF小蓝（商学院入学考试指导）上的逻辑题

[求助]XDF小蓝（商学院入学考试指导）上的逻辑题

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