Multiple choice

It is the arbitrary exemptions from the law provided to the privileged - often violent - sections among the less privileged that are the basis of the widespread sense of injustice, and of the collapse of the authority and legitimacy of the justice system, that would be more correctly identified as the 'root cause' of the pervasive sense of injury than any other failure of the state. Yet, we are constantly told, that we must create even more exceptions to the application of the law to accommodate these forces of violent disruption in order to address this sense of injury.

What is the most critical completion of the passage?

  1. Wow!

  2. Rubbing salt into the wounds!

  3. Squaring a problem does not halve it!

  4. Such a vicious irony!

  5. Ever heard of it?

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

An irony is implied when the cause and cure are caused by the same instrument. In this case, remedy being worse than the malady which it is supposed to cure, creates the irony.