PrepTest 72, Section 3, Question 17
Meade: People who are injured as a result of their risky behaviors not only cause harm to themselves but, because we all have important ties to other people, inevitably impose emotional and financial costs on others. To protect the interests of others, therefore, governments are justified in outlawing behavior that puts one's own health at risk.
Meade: People who are injured as a result of their risky behaviors not only cause harm to themselves but, because we all have important ties to other people, inevitably impose emotional and financial costs on others. To protect the interests of others, therefore, governments are justified in outlawing behavior that puts one's own health at risk.
Meade: People who are injured as a result of their risky behaviors not only cause harm to themselves but, because we all have important ties to other people, inevitably impose emotional and financial costs on others. To protect the interests of others, therefore, governments are justified in outlawing behavior that puts one's own health at risk.
Meade: People who are injured as a result of their risky behaviors not only cause harm to themselves but, because we all have important ties to other people, inevitably impose emotional and financial costs on others. To protect the interests of others, therefore, governments are justified in outlawing behavior that puts one's own health at risk.
Which one of the following principles, if valid, most undermines the reasoning in Meade's argument?
Endangering the social ties that one has to other people is itself a harm to oneself.
People who have important ties to others have a personal obligation not to put their own health at risk.
Governments are not justified in limiting an individual's behavior unless that behavior imposes emotional or financial costs on others.
Preventing harm to others is not by itself a sufficient justification for laws that limit personal freedom.
People's obligation to avoid harming others outweighs their obligation to avoid harming themselves.
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