Multiple choice

What is the thematic highlight of the passage?

  1. The ruling class and the people with power decide the laws and the punishment.

  2. Morality and crime are two different things and a crime cannot be said to be amoral because the basis of the criminal statutes is not morality.

  3. Crime cannot be demarcated into good or bad, or right or wrong; it depends on the beliefs of the society prevalent at that time.

  4. Things that are forbidden are not necessarily evil and do not demand a punishment for the same; it depends more on the whims of the ruling class.
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Explanation

Sentence '3' takes both the important aspects given in the passage: i) crime cannot be demarcated into good or bad, ii) depends on the beliefs of the society prevalent at that time; sentence '5' is rather extreme. Amoral is not the same thing as immoral.

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