Question

PART B: Which TWO details from the text best support the answer to Part A?

Answer to Part A : B. While empathy encourages caring feelings towards others, it alone does not drive people to act on their feelings in the same way as a sense of responsibility.



A. “School leaders try to attract a diverse set of students so each can understand what it’s like to walk in the others’ shoes.” (Paragraph 1)

B. “Empathy makes you more aware of other people’s suffering, but it’s not clear it actually motivates you to take moral action or prevents you from taking immoral action.” (Paragraph 4)

C. “Moreover, Prinz argues, empathy often leads people astray. It influences people to care more about cute victims than ugly victims.” (Paragraph 9)

D. “It has become a way to experience delicious moral emotions without confronting the weaknesses in our nature that prevent us from actually acting upon them.” (Paragraph 10)

E

Answer 1

One is B, the other has to be....D

Answer 2

B. “Empathy makes you more aware of other people’s suffering, but it’s not clear it actually motivates you to take moral action or prevents you from taking immoral action.” (Paragraph 4)

D. “It has become a way to experience delicious moral emotions without confronting the weaknesses in our nature that prevent us from actually acting upon them.” (Paragraph 10)

Step-by-step explanation:

In Part A, we learn that empathy encourages caring for others, but does not necessarily drive people to act on these impulses. This is supported by these two passages. In the first one, we learn that empathy makes you aware of suffering, but does not necessarily lead you to act morally. In the second one, we learn that empathy allows you to experience moral emotions without forcing you to act morally. Both excerpts support the idea expressed in Part A.