A group of children of various ages was read stories in which people caused harm, some of those people doing so intentionally, and some accidentally. When asked about appropriate punishments for those who had caused harm, the younger children, unlike the older ones, assigned punishments that did not vary according to whether the harm was done intentionally or accidentally. Younger children, then, do not regard people’s intentions as relevant to punishment.
Which of the following, if true, would most seriously weaken the conclusion above?
(A) In interpreting these stories, the listeners had to draw on a relatively mature sense of human psychology in order to tell whether harm was produced intentionally or accidentally.
(B) In these stories, the severity of the harm produced was clearly stated.
(C) Younger children are as likely to produce harm unintentionally as are older children.
(D) The older children assigned punishment in a way that closely resembled the way adults had assigned punishment in a similar experiment
(E) The younger children assigned punishments that varied according to the severity of the harm done by the agents in the stories.

Is it A ?

A

Guys, explanations plz...

I came to the answer more so by rejecting the other options .
Though i had a confusion between E and A .
But then E wasn't exactly related to the conclusion mentioned in the question "Younger children, then, do not regard people’s intentions as relevant to punishment.
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The OA is a...even I did the same way, but i checked teh explanations and here it goes..
conlcusion - Younger children do not regard people’s intentions as relevant to punishment.
We need to find a statement which weakens the conclusion.A says that the listeners need to have a mature sense (which children dont have) to understand whether it was done intentionally or not. This weakens the argument as children dont have this mature sense to understand whether its done intentionally or not that they dont regard peoples intentions...