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According to the passage, what do national leaders find it difficult to agree on?

Political Science · Political Theory UGC NET 2023 Political Science
Passage
Global justice theories have the manifest goal of universalising the postulates that conceptualise the world as one political entity. Darrel Moellendorf has reasoned that if justice is owed within the borders of a nation-state, the same reasoning supports justice beyond those borders. The philosopher Peter Singer set out his main arguments about the global aspects of morality in his influential essay 'Famine, Affluence and Morality'. He held that suffering and death from starvation, and the lack of basic health facilities or shelter, are simply bad; and that those who have the capacity to prevent something bad without sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance are morally obliged to do so. For Singer the needs of strangers, that is, people other than our own fellow neighbours, are equally morally compelling. In a subsequent book entitled 'One World', Singer argued further that the world is interrelated and intertwined, so we need a transglobal understanding of justice. Thomas Nagel, adding to the debate, says that the least controversial claim one could make in international political theory is that we do not live in a just world. There may be room for disagreement about the most effective methods to deal with problems of global poverty, malnutrition and the death due to associated reasons; but some form of humane assistance to those in dire need is clearly called for, apart from any demand of justice.
According to the passage, what do national leaders find it difficult to agree on?
AHuman assistance should be provided to the needy
BThe universalization of liberalism
CThe most effective methods to deal with global justice ✓ Correct
DStrangers' needs are not just
Correct answer: (C) The most effective methods to deal with global justice — According to the passage, national leaders find it difficult to agree on the most effective methods to deal with global justice, so the answer is option 3.
Explanation
According to the passage, national leaders find it difficult to agree on the most effective methods to deal with global justice, so the answer is option 3.
The passage grants that some humane assistance to those in dire need is clearly called for, so leaders do not disagree about helping as such.
What they dispute is the method, how best to address global poverty, starvation and malnutrition.
The universalisation of liberalism is described as the basis of global justice, not the point of disagreement.
The claim that strangers' needs are not just is the opposite of the passage, which treats those needs as morally compelling.
Spotting cue: in this passage the disagreement is about means, not ends, so the methods option is correct.

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