Hi why is the answer, Option B?
Started by
Mikhail1710
· started 2024-06-29 21:18
· last activity 2024-07-03 00:10
· 1 reply
Hi why is the answer, Option B?
Option B: It is accurate to say that 5,000 lives have been saved as long as 5,000 people who would have died in a given year as a result of not changing their diet, did not do—so even if they died for some other reason.
-
Emil-Kunkin
· 2024-07-03 00:10
L claims that her idea could save 5000 lives a year. T finds this implausible as it would mean that the population in that counterfactual would be 50000 higher in ten years.
The question asks us how L would best respond.
B undermines the idea that t finds implausible. Saving 5000 per year does not actually mean that the population would be 50,000 higher after ten years, because a good chunk of them would have dies of other causes during that period. Thus, the implication that T finds implausible is actually not as large as she thought.
Sign in to reply.