Read this passage from “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut:

“If you could just take a few out when you came home from work,” said Hazel. “I mean-you don’t compete with anybody around here. You just sit around.”
“If tried to get away with it,” said George, “then other people’d get away with it- and pretty soon we’d be right back to the dark ages again, with everybody competing against everybody else. You wouldn’t like that, would you?”

Which statement best explains how irony is used in the passage?

A. George is unable to use his reasoning skills because the government handicapped him.
B. George prefers a society with limits rather than one that allows him to compete.
C. George refers to the year 2081 as the dark ages because people are unable to use their talents.
D. Hazel tries to persuade her husband to break a strictly enforced law.