Which is the best standard-form representation of the following Argument from Analogy?
Suppose that Jones lives in a time of serious inequality between racial groups. One racial group has much more wealth, many opportunities for better jobs, better living
Conditions, better food. Jones, luckily for him, is a member of the much-better-off racial group. Imagine that Jones consistently gives preference to members of his own racial group. When he has jobs to offer, he offers them to people of his race. When he gives to charities, he gives to charities that benefit people of his race. Jones's behavior, it seems to me, is morally offensive.
American patriotism, understood as the practice of giving preference to the interests of one's own country and compatriots over those of people in other countries, is not importantly different. Patriotism perpetuates unjust inequality between groups by giving preference to people who are already benefiting from that inequality. Patriotic, "Americans first" behavior, like Jones's behavior, is morally offensive.
A) 1) Treating people unequally is morally offensive.
2) Patriotism treats people unequally. Therefore, patriotism is morally offensive.
B) 1) Patriotic behavior is morally offensive.
2) Jones's behavior is morally offensive. Therefore, patriotic behavior is morally offensive.
C) 1) Patriotic behavior is morally offensive.
2) Patriotic behavior is relevantly similar to Jones's behavior. Therefore, Jones's behavior is morally offensive.
D) 1) Jones's behavior is morally offensive.
2) Patriotic behavior is relevantly similar to Jones's behavior. Therefore, patriotic behavior is morally offensive.
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