Michael Slote's Hypnotized Patient thought experiment shows that

A. we can be de-programmed of our first-order desires.
B. second-order desires are always under our own control, even under hypnosis.
C. we have no second-order desires
D. it is logically possible that our second-order desires are not our own.
E. first-order desires always conflict with second-order desires.


Answer: D

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