Which of the Following Best Explains Why Drawing Analogies Between

Multiple Choice

Which of the following best explains why drawing analogies between two actions can lead to a particular moral conclusion about one of them?

A) People must be able to depend on others' consistent judgment from one case to the next, and so it is important not to change your mind about your moral judgments.
B) Because, as the American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."
C) If two things are similar enough in nonmoral ways, then it would be inconsistent or even hypocritical to make different moral judgments about them.
D) By provoking moral intuitions related to one action, the argument can provoke similar moral intuitions about the second action.