这题怎么看不太懂呀？求助~

frankzhiwei · 发表于 2010-12-4 16:02:13

George 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 argument 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 market share（A）
(E) Bakers and surgeons who earn a profit by supplying other peoples’ basic needs

为何答案是A呢？小弟选了D，求指教~

frankzhiwei · 发表于 2010-12-4 18:07:31

继续顶~

labellor · 发表于 2010-12-4 20:00:32

the cash nexus between u and baker is based on the interesting of bread, but that nexus between u and a surgeon is "not" based on the intereting of cutting leg off. (so as to the analogue of dentist)

open to discuss

zhangjy · 发表于 2010-12-4 23:24:43

我觉得这要道题关键要看作者的态度，这个类比是为了达到某种目的而做什么事儿又损害了别人的利益，作者的态度是negative的， A最合适了。

sdcar2010 · 发表于 2010-12-5 02:01:00

LS is right.

In essence, the argument is the following: You can do things that benefit your own interest. But you cannot do things that harm other's interest while benefiting yourself.

"[G]ive a surgeon a pecuniary interest in cutting off your leg" is similar to let a "[d]entists perform unnecessary dental work in order to earn a profit", both of which the augument is criticizing.

On the other hand, "you could provide for the supply of bread by giving bakers a pecuniary interest in baking for you" is not a viewpoint that the argument criticizes. Answer D "Oil companies that decrease the price of their oil in order to increase their market share" is, on the whole, minding their own business without apparently harming anyone else.

这题怎么看不太懂呀？求助~

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