[LR][PT20-S1-Q22] 英文不理解

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To hold criminals responsible for their crimes involves a failure to recognize that criminal actions, like all actions, are ultimately products of the environment that forged the agent's character. It is not criminals but people in the law-abiding majority who by their actions do most to create and maintain this environment. Therefore, it is law-abiding people whose actions, and nothing else, make them alone truly responsible for crime.

The reasoning in the argument is most vulnerable to criticism on the grounds that

A)  it exploits an ambiguity in the term "environment" by treating two different meanings of the word as though they were equivalent

B)  it fails to distinguish between actions that are socially acceptable and actions that are socially unacceptable

C)  the way it distinguishes criminals from crimes implicitly denies that someone becomes a criminal solely in virtue of having committed a crime

D)  its conclusion is a generalization of statistical evidence drawn from only a small minority of the population

E)  its conclusion contradicts an implicit principle on which an earlier part of the argument is based
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看解答第一句To hold criminals responsible for their crimes involves a failure to recognize that criminal actions, like all actions, are ultimately products of the environment that forged the agent's character.表示 criminal actions are the products of the environment, 我理解剛好相反, 認為是it is a failure to thick the criminal actions are the products of the environment, 可以請高手引導思路嗎? 謝謝

duijinxiaoziUID: 2585955

criminal actions, like all actions, are ultimately products of the environment that forged the agent's character
就是说，所有的 actions 都是 environment 惹的祸。
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因为，是 environment 惹的祸 ，所以 criminals 没责任。
因为，是 environment 惹的祸 ，所以 good guys 也应该没责任。
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而，作者认为 都是 good guys  的责任。 自相矛盾。
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BTW，
people in the law-abiding majority who by their actions do most to create and maintain this environment.
或者可以这么看，good guys 是 most （95%）create and maintain this environment.
那么，criminals 是（5%）create and maintain this environment. 所以，criminals 也应该有责任。
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总之，作者自相矛盾。

umcwayneUID: 2674663

謝謝板主, 非常清楚

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