请教TN-16-03

stevencaoy

Mel: The official salary for judges has always been too low to attract the best candidates to the job. The legislature's move to raise the salary has done nothing to improve the situation, because it was coupled with a ban on receiving money for lectures and teaching engagements.

Pat: No, the raise in salary really does improve the situation. Since very few judges teach or give lectures, the ban will have little or no negative effect.

Pat's response to Mel is inadequate in that it

A. attempts to assess how a certain change will affect potential members of a group by providing evidence about its effect on the current members.

B. mistaenly takes the cause of a certain change to be an effect of that change

C. attempts to argue that a certain change will have a positive effect merely by pointing to the absence of negative effects

D. simply denies Mel's claim without putting forward any evidence in support of that denial

E. assumes that changes that benefit the most able members of a group necessarily benefit all members of that group.

为什么选A呢?我觉的C讲得很有理啊~

stevencaoy

求NN们来解答一下啊~

prayer

写作里提到过，错误的以现在来表示将来。
pat的观点是，现在几乎没有人做××××，所以ban将来也不会有影响。
现在的情况跟未来的情况是不一样的，就像A说的