medium · LSAT Logical Reasoning
Speaker A: To minimize regional violence, we should stop making public declarations condemning oppressive regimes, since our last six declarations were each immediately followed by outbreaks of violence.
Speaker B: Those declarations were made only because our intelligence indicated that violence was already certain to occur. Stopping the declarations would not have prevented the violence.
The speakers disagree over whether:
- the public declarations were what brought about the violence that followed them.
- oppressive regimes deserve to be condemned by the international community.
- violence in fact occurred after each of the six public declarations.
- intelligence reports are generally a dependable gauge of regional stability.
- future violence can be predicted accurately enough to justify any policy change.
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