Instructions

In making decisions about important questions, it is desirable to be able to distinguish between ‘strong’ arguments and ‘weak’ arguments. ‘Strong’ arguments are those which are both important and directly related to the question. ‘Weak’ arguments are those which are of minor importance and also may not be directly related to the question or may be related to a trivial aspect of the question.
Instructions : In each of the following a question is followed by two arguments numbered I and II.
You have to decide which argument is strong and which argument is weak.

Give answer a: if only argument I is strong.
Give answer b: if only argument II is strong.
Give answer c: if either argument I or II is strong.
Give answer d: if neither argument I nor II is strong.
Give answer e: if both the arguments I and II are strong.

Question 177

Statement : Should India acquire/manufacture the latest nuclear weapons ?
Arguments
I. Yes, the enemies of India are improving their weapons continuously.
II. No, it will be against our policy of maintaining world peace.

Solution

Clearly, in the blind race for attaining nuclear powers, acquiring nuclear weapons is an inevitability to protect the country from the threat of nuclear powers. So, argument I holds strong. Also, India intends to acquire nuclear weapons for self - defence and not aggression. So, argument II also does not hold.

Thus, only argument I is strong.

=> Ans - (A)


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