PrepTest 94+, Section 4, Question 26
Letter to the editor: In calling on antinuclear activists to "live up to their own ideals" and help find better ways of disposing of nuclear waste, advocates of nuclear power merely prove their own dishonesty. Everyone knows that antinuclear activists want the world rid of nuclear power as soon as possible, and they believe any other option is environmentally irresponsible. But finding better ways of disposing of nuclear waste would probably make nuclear power acceptable to more people and thus likelier to continue.
Letter to the editor: In calling on antinuclear activists to "live up to their own ideals" and help find better ways of disposing of nuclear waste, advocates of nuclear power merely prove their own dishonesty. Everyone knows that antinuclear activists want the world rid of nuclear power as soon as possible, and they believe any other option is environmentally irresponsible. But finding better ways of disposing of nuclear waste would probably make nuclear power acceptable to more people and thus likelier to continue.
Letter to the editor: In calling on antinuclear activists to "live up to their own ideals" and help find better ways of disposing of nuclear waste, advocates of nuclear power merely prove their own dishonesty. Everyone knows that antinuclear activists want the world rid of nuclear power as soon as possible, and they believe any other option is environmentally irresponsible. But finding better ways of disposing of nuclear waste would probably make nuclear power acceptable to more people and thus likelier to continue.
Letter to the editor: In calling on antinuclear activists to "live up to their own ideals" and help find better ways of disposing of nuclear waste, advocates of nuclear power merely prove their own dishonesty. Everyone knows that antinuclear activists want the world rid of nuclear power as soon as possible, and they believe any other option is environmentally irresponsible. But finding better ways of disposing of nuclear waste would probably make nuclear power acceptable to more people and thus likelier to continue.
Which one of the following principles, if valid, most helps to justify the reasoning in the argument?
If other options are available, it is irresponsible to take a possibly beneficial course of action that has the potential of causing harm.
It is better to eliminate a potentially harmful practice than to try to improve it, if improving it will not significantly reduce its capacity to cause harm.
If one is calling on people to act in a way that will possibly undermine their goals, it is dishonest to ask that they do so for the sake of their ideals.
It is irresponsible to try to induce others to find a practice acceptable if it is not one's own belief that that practice is acceptable.
It is dishonest to ask people to live up to their ideals without revealing whether one's own ideals conflict with theirs.
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