PrepTest 73, Section 3, Question 23
Problem: If Shayna congratulates Daniel on his award, she will misrepresent her true feelings. However, if Shayna does not congratulate Daniel, she will hurt his feelings.
Problem: If Shayna congratulates Daniel on his award, she will misrepresent her true feelings. However, if Shayna does not congratulate Daniel, she will hurt his feelings.
Principle: One should never be insincere about one's feelings, except possibly where one believes that the person with whom one is speaking would prefer kindness to honesty.
Problem: If Shayna congratulates Daniel on his award, she will misrepresent her true feelings. However, if Shayna does not congratulate Daniel, she will hurt his feelings.
Principle: One should never be insincere about one's feelings, except possibly where one believes that the person with whom one is speaking would prefer kindness to honesty.
Problem: If Shayna congratulates Daniel on his award, she will misrepresent her true feelings. However, if Shayna does not congratulate Daniel, she will hurt his feelings.
The principle, if valid, most helps to justify the reasoning in which one of the following arguments concerning the problem?
If Shayna congratulates Daniel, she will avoid hurting his feelings, so she should congratulate him.
Daniel might prefer for Shayna to congratulate him�even if insincerely�rather than for her to express her true feelings, and so Shayna would be doing nothing wrong in insincerely congratulating Daniel.
Shayna believes that kindness should be preferred to dishonesty when speaking to others, so she should not tell Daniel her true feelings.
Daniel's feelings would be hurt if he knew that congratulations from Shayna were insincere, so Shayna should not congratulate him.
Shayna has no opinion about whether Daniel would prefer kindness to honesty, so she should not congratulate him.
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