PrepTest 23, Section 3, Question 20
Helen: It was wrong of my brother Mark to tell our mother that the reason he had missed her birthday party the evening before was that he had been in a traffic accident and that by the time he was released from the hospital emergency room the party was long over. Saying something that is false can never be other than morally wrong, and there had been no such accident�Mark had simply forgotten all about the party.
Helen: It was wrong of my brother Mark to tell our mother that the reason he had missed her birthday party the evening before was that he had been in a traffic accident and that by the time he was released from the hospital emergency room the party was long over. Saying something that is false can never be other than morally wrong, and there had been no such accident�Mark had simply forgotten all about the party.
Helen: It was wrong of my brother Mark to tell our mother that the reason he had missed her birthday party the evening before was that he had been in a traffic accident and that by the time he was released from the hospital emergency room the party was long over. Saying something that is false can never be other than morally wrong, and there had been no such accident�Mark had simply forgotten all about the party.
Helen: It was wrong of my brother Mark to tell our mother that the reason he had missed her birthday party the evening before was that he had been in a traffic accident and that by the time he was released from the hospital emergency room the party was long over. Saying something that is false can never be other than morally wrong, and there had been no such accident�Mark had simply forgotten all about the party.
The main conclusion drawn in Helen's argument is that
Mark did not tell his mother the truth
the real reason Mark missed his mother's birthday party was that he had forgotten all about it
it is wrong to attempt to avoid blame for one's failure to do something by claiming that one was prevented from doing that thing by events outside one's control
it was wrong of Mark to tell his mother that he had missed her birthday party as a result of having been in a traffic accident
it is always wrong not to tell the truth
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