Passage Summary: We should try to make people better, but there is a weird problem: praising good people makes them worse, while praising bad people makes them better, even though bad people don't actually deserve the praise.

Reasoning: We are told to act in ways that increase virtue in others; however, praise increases virtue in the less virtuous while decreasing it in the more virtuous, yet only the more virtuous deserve it.

Analysis: This stimulus presents a moral paradox where our duty to improve others conflicts with our sense of who deserves reward. If we strictly follow the rule to make others more virtuous, we would end up praising those who don't deserve it and withholding praise from those who do. To find the correct inference, look for a statement that combines these rules into a logical consequence. The most likely path is an answer that acknowledges we should sometimes do what is 'undeserved' to achieve the goal of increasing virtue.