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Identify the Best Standard-Form Representation of the Argument in the Passage

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Identify the best standard-form representation of the argument in the passage:
The passage: "A being has moral rights only if it makes sense to hold it accountable for its choices and praise or blame it, in moral terms, for those choices. Thus, non-human animals do not have moral rights, since it makes no sense to hold them morally accountable for the things they do."


A) 1) A being has moral rights only if it makes sense to hold it accountable for its choices and praise or blame it for those choices
2) It makes no sense to hold non-human animals accountable for their choices So, non-human animals do not have moral rights
B) 1) A being has moral rights only if it makes sense to hold it accountable for its choices and praise or blame it for those choices
2) Non-human animals do not have moral rights
So, it makes no sense to hold non-human animals morally accountable for the things they do.
C) 1) Non-human animals do not have moral rights
2) A being has moral rights only if it makes sense to hold it accountable for its choices and praise or blame it for those choices
So, it makes no sense to hold non-human animals morally accountable for their choices
D) 1) A being has moral rights if it makes sense to hold it accountable for its choices
2) It doesn't make sense to hold non-human animals accountable for their choices So, non-human animals should not be praised or blamed for what they do.

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