Perhaps I am more than usually jealous with respect to my freedom. I feel that my connection with and obligation to society are still very slight and transient. Those slight labors which afford me a livelihood, and by which it is allowed that I am to some extent serviceable to my contemporaries, are as yet commonly a pleasure to me, and I am not often reminded that they are a necessity. So far I am successful. But I foresee that if my wants should be much increased, the labor required to supply them would become a drudgery. If I should sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure that for me there would be nothing left worth living for. What is the rhetorical purpose for the first three sentences of paragraph 10?
A. to anticipate and address an opposing argument
B. to establish the ethical argument against a community focused on monetary gain
C. to refute the argument raised in paragraph 3
D. to support the argument presented in paragraph 8
E. to emphasize the speaker’s commitment to the main argument