People should be held accountable for their own behavior, and if holding people accountable for their own behavior entails capital punishment, then so be it. However, no person should be held accountable for behavior over which he or she had no control.

Which of the following is the most logical conclusion of the argument above?

(A) People should not be held accountable for the behavior of other people.
(B) People have control over their own behavior.
(C) People cannot control the behavior of other people.
(D) Behavior that cannot be controlled should not be punished.
(E) People have control over behavior that is subject to capital punishment.

The ans given is B. Pls explain.

Hi
A,C is wrong because it's about other people as you need to talk about youe behaviour.
E is extreme as capital punishment, in CR extreme is possible bt not in in this one.

Left with B,D if you see option D is actually saying the same thing which the last sente is saying .. Hence it can't be the conclusion
option left is B

this is by elimination. but what is the logic behind behind the answer choice B?

this question is definitely in the wrong folder -- this folder is for problems from manhattan gmat exams, and this is definitely not one of those problems.

in fact, this problem doesn't really belong on a gmat forum at all. it reads a lot like a lsat problem -- and is downright misleading, as far as the gmat goes.
in any case, the best of the choices here is (d). this choice is basically just a restatement of the last sentence in the passage, but it's definitely the only one of the five choices that can even remotely be justified by the content of the passage.

however, i maintain that this problem constitutes TERRIBLE practice for the gmat. first, it's basically an exercise in socratic logic; such problems basically just don't appear on the gmat. second, it's a problem in which the best answer is just the rephrase of an already existing premise; this isn't generally how gmat conclusion problems work (you almost always have to COMBINE two or more statements in such problems).