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The attitude that it is all right to do what harms no one but oneself is usually accompanied by a disregard for the actual interdependence of people. Destroying one’s own life or health means not being available to help family members or the community; it means, instead, absorbing the limited resources of the community for food, health services, and education without contributing fully to the community.

Which of the following, if true, most strongly supports the view expressed?

A. The cost of avoidable accidents and illnesses raises health insurance rates for everyone.

B. Harm to one person can result in an indirect benefit, such as the availability of work in heal-related fields, to others.

C. Life would be dull if it were necessary to abstain from all of the minor pleasures that entail some risk of harm to a person who indulges in them.

D. The contribution a person makes to the community cannot be measured by that person’s degree of health.

E. The primary damage caused by the consumption of alcohol, tobacco, and unauthorized drugs is done to the person who uses those substances.

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Argument - harm to one/some, affects (NEGATIVELY) all
Only option A talks on those lines
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pr3mk5 You asked for my input here, and I agree with you about A.

The viewpoint expressed, in short, is that hurting one's own life or health has negative effects on other people. We are asked to strengthen this argument. Only A gives us what we are looking for: new information about how hurting one's own life or health has negative effects on other people.
Everything else weakens the argument in some way.
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Answer: (A)

The passage argues that harming only yourself is actually impossible because of interdependence — your health/resource use affects others (family, community). It specifically mentions "absorbing the limited resources of the community for... health services."

Option A directly supports this: if avoidable accidents/illnesses raise insurance rates for everyone, this is concrete evidence that one person's "self-harm" has real financial consequences for the whole community. This is exactly the kind of interdependence the passage is arguing for.

Why the others fail:

(B) Actually undermines the argument — it suggests harm to one person can indirectly benefit others

(C) This is a counterargument in favor of personal autonomy/pleasure, which weakens rather than supports the passage's stance against "victimless" self-harm.

(D) This weakens the argument by suggesting that health level and community contribution are unrelated — directly contradicting the passage's claim that poor health prevents you from "contributing fully to the community."

(E) This directly contradicts the passage's core thesis — it explicitly states that the primary damage IS to the user themselves, supporting the "harms no one but oneself" view that the passage is arguing against.

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The attitude that it is all right to do what harms no one but oneself is usually accompanied by a disregard for the actual interdependence of people. Destroying one’s own life or health means not being available to help family members or the community; it means, instead, absorbing the limited resources of the community for food, health services, and education without contributing fully to the community.

Which of the following, if true, most strongly supports the view expressed?

A. The cost of avoidable accidents and illnesses raises health insurance rates for everyone.

B. Harm to one person can result in an indirect benefit, such as the availability of work in heal-related fields, to others.

C. Life would be dull if it were necessary to abstain from all of the minor pleasures that entail some risk of harm to a person who indulges in them.

D. The contribution a person makes to the community cannot be measured by that person’s degree of health.

E. The primary damage caused by the consumption of alcohol, tobacco, and unauthorized drugs is done to the person who uses those substances.
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