Logical Reasoning

PT127 · S2 · Q16 In order to expand

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In order to expand its mailing lists for e-mail advertising, the Outdoor Sports Company has been offering its customers financial incentives if they provide the e-mail addresses of their friends.

Evidence

Offering financial incentives to customers RDIR if they provide the e-mail addresses of their friends risks damaging the integrity of those relationships.

Conclusion

Offering such financial incentives to ~E customers is an unethical business practice.

Evaluate

The argument assumes that if a business RDIR → ~E practice encourages people to act in a way that risks damaging the integrity of their relationships, that business practice is unethical.

16.

Which one of the following principles, if valid, most helps to justify the reasoning in the argument?

  1. It is unethical for people

    Wrong Outcomes

    This assigns ethical judgment to the customers, while the conclusion of the argument assigns ethical judgment to the companies offering such financial incentives.

    10% picked this

  2. If it would be unethical

    Wrong Trigger

    The ethics of using information gathered in a particular way is not the same as risking damage to the integrity of personal relationships.

    1% picked this

  3. It is an unethical business

    Wrong Trigger

    Deliberately damaging the integrity of its customers’ personal relationships is not the same as risking damage to those relationships.

    10% picked this

  4. Correct

    It is unethical to encourage

    Why this is right

    This bridges the gap between RDIR → ~E risking damage to the integrity of their customers relationships and a business practice which is unethical.

    Skill tested: Principle-Strengthen · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.

    74% picked this

  5. Providing a friend's personal information

    Supports a Premise

    This supports the premise but does not support the argument’s reasoning since it does not link the evidence to the conclusion.

    4% picked this

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