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In the world's democracies, proportionally few elected representatives are young adults. While some philosophers argue that certain types of underrepresentation (of women, for example) are unfair in principle and should be remediated via quotas, there is broad agreement that youth underrepresentation is not inherently unfair since it is universal (all people are underrepresented when young), temporary (underrepresented young people become overrepresented older people), and reflective of a legitimate concern (lack of relevant experience). Accordingly, when philosopher Juliana Uhuru Bidadanure advocates for youth quotas for elected representatives, she does so on the basis of their instrumental value for promoting youth interests, arguing that ______
Which choice most logically completes the text?
young adults may lack certain kinds of experience but those experiences are not relevant to the question of whether youth underrepresentation is fair in principle.
A
age-related quotas would alleviate the inherently unfair overrepresentation of older people that tends to occur in the world's democracies.
B
youth underrepresentation may be fair in principle but leads to worse outcomes for young adults than could be achieved with more proportionate youth representation.
C
it does not matter that youth underrepresentation is universal, temporary, and reflective of a legitimate concern since it is inherently unfair.
D