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Political candidates’ speeches are loaded with promisesand with expressions ... ...

Which one of the following most accurately describes a flaw in the argument above?
(A) The argument presumes, without providing justification, that if a person’s promise is not selfishly motivated then that promise is reliable.
(B) ...
(C) ...
(D) ...
(E) ...

*This question is included in Free Complete Section: LR-B, June '07 LSAT

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Posted: 09/30/2011 18:59
Isn't D like a re-wording of A? Sort
Of like the contrapostive...
 
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Posted: 10/01/2011 16:26
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Posted: 12/29/2012 00:10
Similarly, D is simply a rewording of B....
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Posted: 01/20/2013 02:00
can someone please explain why B is incorrect? It makes sense to me. The author is preuming that because the promise is selfish, it must be unreliable right?
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Posted: 05/16/2013 22:53
B goes too far. Never kept is unnecessarily strong. The point at issue is merely unreliability, which need not preclude promises sometimes being kept.
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