Read the excerpt from Plato's "The Republic":

"eat, baking loaves;
in clean hands strewn
they will feast, wearing
roses of the Republic,
they will never exceed their means."

How does this excerpt support Plato's claim that people in a good society live comfortably but responsibly?

A. It uses abductive reasoning based on trends that Plato has noticed in his society.
B. It uses deductive reasoning based on the premise that people need different things.
C. It uses inductive reasoning based on specific examples of people living this way.
D. It uses deductive reasoning based on the assumption that people never exceed their means.