PrepTest 23, Section 3, Question 16
Magazine article: Punishment for crimes is justified if it actually deters people from committing them. But a great deal of carefully assembled and analyzed empirical data show clearly that punishment is not a deterrent. So punishment is never justified.
Magazine article: Punishment for crimes is justified if it actually deters people from committing them. But a great deal of carefully assembled and analyzed empirical data show clearly that punishment is not a deterrent. So punishment is never justified.
Magazine article: Punishment for crimes is justified if it actually deters people from committing them. But a great deal of carefully assembled and analyzed empirical data show clearly that punishment is not a deterrent. So punishment is never justified.
Magazine article: Punishment for crimes is justified if it actually deters people from committing them. But a great deal of carefully assembled and analyzed empirical data show clearly that punishment is not a deterrent. So punishment is never justified.
The reasoning in the magazine article's argument is flawed because the argument
depends on data that there is reason to suspect may be biased
mistakenly allows the key term "punishment" to shift in meaning
mistakes being sufficient to justify punishment for being required to justify it
ignores the problem of mistakenly punishing the innocent
attempts to be more precise than its subject matter properly allows
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