Question ID:PT64 S1 Q16 Passage:The view that every person is concerned exclusively with her or his own self-interest implies that government by consent is impossible. Thus, social theorists who believe that people are concerned only with their self-interest evidently believe that aspiring to democracy is futile, since democracy is not possible in the absence of government by consent. Stem:The reasoning in the argument is flawed in that the argument Correct Answer Choice:AChoice A:infers merely from the fact of someone's holding a belief that he or she believes an implication of that belief Choice B:infers that because something is true of a group of people, it is true of each individual member of the group Choice C:infers that because something is true of each individual person belonging to a group, it is true of the group as a whole Choice D:attempts to discredit a theory by discrediting those who espouse that theory Choice E:fails to consider that, even if an argument's conclusion is false, some of the assumptions used to justify that conclusion may nonetheless be true