Explanation for Question 36 From the Reading Section on the 2019 May Sat
Question 36 asks in passage to Posner's use of the phrase, 2 none of your business in lines, 55 through 56, 3 primarily serves to create a what? So let's look back at the sentence that 4 they're referencing here and see if we can grab some context for answering this 5 question. So what kind of exam in that whole last part of that first 6 paragraph? It says because human rights law gives rights to all people, 7 regardless of nationality, it deprives humans of their traditional repost. 8 So the first thing that we run into here is maybe not understanding what 9 repost means and traditional or non-traditional in modern 10 language. Like right now, this could be considered synonymous with like a comeback. 11 So their traditional comeback when foreigners criticized them for abusing their citizens, 12 namely sovereignty. So basically what this is saying is that human rights law 13 gives rights to people and deprives government governments have the ability 14 to say like, it's none of your business, 15 what we're doing when they're accused of abusing people. 16 And so that's what you see here when they reference, 17 which is last week for none of your business. 18 It goes on to say this international human rights law provides people with invaluable 19 protections against the power of the state. So here we can see, 20 this is kind of used as like a jab it's used in a negative 21 tone to kind of criticize or insult something that he's seeing. 22 And so we can use that negative tone to...