Assume that you and 10 of your friends are stuck on a deserted island. no one is coming to get you. so, you have no option other than adjusting to this new life. answer these questions about what you might do in this situation. part a there are fruit trees on the island. everyone spends an equal number of hours collecting fruit. how do you decide how much fruit each person gets? choose one of these options, and explain your choice. you divide it equally among the 11 of you. everyone gets only the fruit he or she personally collected. the leader decides how to best use it. the person with the most resources back home gets most of the fruit.

Voters commonly condemn politicians for being insincere, but politicians often must disguise their true feelings when they make public statements. if they expressed their honest views—about, say, their party's policies—then achieving politically necessary compromises would be much more difficult. clearly, the very insincerity that people decry shows that our government is functioning well. which of the following, if true, most seriously undermines this reasoning? (a) achieving political compromises is not all that is necessary for the proper functioning of a government. (b) some political compromises are not in the best long-term interest of the government. (c) voters often judge politicians by criteria other than the sincerity with which they express their views. (d) a political party's policies could turn out to be detrimental to the functioning of a government. (e) some of the public statements made by politicians about their party's policies could in fact be sincere.