Question

Five jumbled up sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5), related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd sentence and key in the number of that sentence as your answer.

• A. Animals have an interest in fulfilling their basic needs, but also in avoiding suffering, and thus we ought to extend moral consideration.
• B. Singer viewed himself as a utilitarian, and presents a direct moral theory concerning animal rights, in contrast to indirect positions, such as welfarist views.
• C. He argued for extending moral consideration to animals because, similar to humans, animals have certain significant interests.
• D. The event that publicly announced animal rights as a legitimate issue within contemporary philosophy was Peter Singer’s Animal Liberation text in 1975.
• E. As such, we ought to view their interests alongside and equal to human interests, which results in humans having direct moral duties towards animals.

Answer 1

Answer: (D)

The event that publicly announced animal rights as a legitimate issue within contemporary philosophy was Peter Singer’s Animal Liberation text in 1975.

Answer 2

Sentence 4 is the odd one out. While sentences 1, 2, 3, and 5 are centered around Peter Singer’s philosophical argument on animal rights, sentence 4 introduces a historical event (the publication of Singer’s Animal Liberation in 1975), which is not directly part of the philosophical argument. Hence, it disrupts the coherence of the paragraph.