CAT 2025 Set-1 | Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension | Question: 1

Question

Five jumbled sentences (labelled $1, 2, 3, 4$, and $5$), related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd sentence out and key in the number of that sentence as your answer.

• A. Developments both technological and sociocultural have afforded us far greater freedom over death than we had in the past, and while we are still adapting ourselves to that freedom, we now appreciate the moral importance of this freedom.
• B. But I believe that a type of freedom we can call freedom over death - that is, a freedom in which we shape the timing and circumstances of how we die - should be central to this conversation.
• C. Legalising assisted dying is but a further step in realising this freedom over death.
• D. Many people endorse, through their opinions or their choices, our freedom over death encompassing a right to medical assistance in hastening our deaths.
• E. Freedom is a notoriously complex and contested philosophical notion, and I won't pretend to settle any of the big controversies it raises.