How will the right answer fit in terms of support and conclusion?

Only the right answer will add support for the conclusion.

Highlight the main conclusion in the passage, if there is one:

all commitments should be seen as morally neutral.

Essayist: [BACKGROUND]. But [CONCLUSION]. After all, [SUPPORT]. [SUPPORT].

Anytime the right answer is a principle, it has to match the judgment in the conclusion pretty much exactly. So the right answer will have to include something close to “commitments should be seen as morally neutral.”

Map the wording of the answers to the wording of the passage:

(A) Any commitment that is morally neutral either has…

This answer talks about commitments that we already know are “morally neutral”. But we don’t actually know if there any. That’s what the conclusion is trying to establish. This takes the conclusion for granted and doesn’t add support for it.

(B) Commitment to a relationship or career is virtuous…

This flat out contradicts the author, whose conclusion is that there are no “virtuous” commitments.

(C) …then that commitment is morally neutral.

Not bad, but the conclusion is about “all commitments”. Info about one commitment in particular doesn’t really support a conclusion about all of them.

(D) If a commitment…

There it is again. This answer only “helps to justify” a conclusion about this one kind of commitment, but we’d like an answer that supports a conclusion about “all commitments”.

(E) All commitments are morally neutral if…

This is the only one that comes close, so play the game like a pro and don’t get stuck on trying to make perfect sense out of it. That said, this maps perfectly. It connects the reasoning in the support about a commitment that “deserves no praise” to the conclusion that “all commitments are morally neutral”. “If” there really is a connection there, then the conclusion makes a lot more sense.

(E) is the correct answer.

Common pattern/s in this question: If you recognize that the principle in the right answer will basically echo the conclusion, then you can start scanning the answers for “all commitments are morally neutral” and have the points with 100% confidence in under 60 seconds.