PrepTest 94+, Section 2, Question 12
Politician: Tightening air quality standards that regulate industrial emissions would cause industries to move to locations with less stringent standards concerning these emissions. So current standards, which are already quite stringent, should not be raised, since there is not enough evidence that the decreased pollution that would admittedly result from raising the standards would compensate for the loss of jobs caused by the relocation of key industries.
Politician: Tightening air quality standards that regulate industrial emissions would cause industries to move to locations with less stringent standards concerning these emissions. So current standards, which are already quite stringent, should not be raised, since there is not enough evidence that the decreased pollution that would admittedly result from raising the standards would compensate for the loss of jobs caused by the relocation of key industries.
Politician: Tightening air quality standards that regulate industrial emissions would cause industries to move to locations with less stringent standards concerning these emissions. So current standards, which are already quite stringent, should not be raised, since there is not enough evidence that the decreased pollution that would admittedly result from raising the standards would compensate for the loss of jobs caused by the relocation of key industries.
Politician: Tightening air quality standards that regulate industrial emissions would cause industries to move to locations with less stringent standards concerning these emissions. So current standards, which are already quite stringent, should not be raised, since there is not enough evidence that the decreased pollution that would admittedly result from raising the standards would compensate for the loss of jobs caused by the relocation of key industries.
Which one of the following principles, if valid, most helps to justify the politician's reasoning?
Governmental policy should generally be designed to encourage the growth of key industries.
The extent to which the people are willing to accept a governmental policy should be the only factor determining whether that policy is adopted.
Governmental policy should be altered only if there is compelling evidence that the consequences of doing so are better than the consequences of not doing so.
Governmental policy should be changed in those cases in which retaining the policy and changing it each have positive and negative consequences.
If one lacks clear evidence about whether a given action will have a specified consequence, then one should assume that it will have that consequence when deciding whether to perform that action.
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