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Sentence Rearrangement on Victims and Perpetrators

XAT 2018 · Verbal Ability & Logical Reasoning · Hard · Verbal Ability

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Read the Following statements and answer the question that follows:

  1. It is less appealing, but morally more urgent, to understand the actions of the perpetrators.
  2. It is easy to sanctify policies or identities by the deaths of the victims.
  3. The victims were people; a true identification with them would involve grasping their lives rather than grasping at their deaths.
  4. The moral danger, after all, is never that one might become a victim but that one might be a perpetrator or a bystander.
  5. By definition the victims are dead, and unable to defend themselves from the use that others make of their deaths.

Rank the above five statements so as to make it a logical sequence:

  1. A.

    1, 2, 3, 5, 4

  2. B.

    5, 3, 2, 4, 1

  3. C.

    3, 5, 2, 1, 4

  4. D.

    3, 1, 2, 4, 5

  5. E.

    5, 3, 1, 2, 4

Answer

C

Explanation

Statement 3 introduces the victims as people. Statement 5 elaborates on their state ('by definition the victims are dead...'). Statement 2 connects to how others make use of their deaths ('sanctify policies...'). Statement 1 shifts focus to perpetrators ('morally more urgent...'). Statement 4 summarizes the core moral danger (perpetrator vs victim). Thus 3-5-2-1-4 is the logical order.

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