PrepTest 93+, Section 3, Question 3
Bernard: We should not invite Carl to speak at the forum. Carl's views are clearly false, and worse, dangerous. To encourage their consideration will not only legitimize them but also help to promulgate them, both of which we should avoid, since we wish not to support their adoption.
Bernard: We should not invite Carl to speak at the forum. Carl's views are clearly false, and worse, dangerous. To encourage their consideration will not only legitimize them but also help to promulgate them, both of which we should avoid, since we wish not to support their adoption.
Ayla: The best way to combat false views is to challenge them in public. Once Carl's views are subjected to the kind of public scrutiny the forum provides, people will see them for what they are because the forum will provide convincing arguments against them.
Bernard: We should not invite Carl to speak at the forum. Carl's views are clearly false, and worse, dangerous. To encourage their consideration will not only legitimize them but also help to promulgate them, both of which we should avoid, since we wish not to support their adoption.
Ayla: The best way to combat false views is to challenge them in public. Once Carl's views are subjected to the kind of public scrutiny the forum provides, people will see them for what they are because the forum will provide convincing arguments against them.
Bernard: We should not invite Carl to speak at the forum. Carl's views are clearly false, and worse, dangerous. To encourage their consideration will not only legitimize them but also help to promulgate them, both of which we should avoid, since we wish not to support their adoption.
The dialogue provides the most support for the claim that Bernard and Ayla disagree about whether
one should always avoid legitimizing a view whose adoption one wishes not to support
people will see the falsity of every dangerous idea for which they are furnished with forceful counterarguments
the best way to fight erroneous ideas involves allowing the public expression of these ideas
people who hold false views tend to pose a danger to society
one should not encourage the adoption of dangerous views
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