A recent law ruled that all aviation companies have the right to

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A recent law ruled that all aviation companies have the right to refuse service to an individual if allowing the individual to fly would entail an eighty percent chance that he or she would suffer respiratory issues. The lawmakers justified the law, saying that the law protected both the aviation companies and their passengers.

The effectiveness of the law in regulating the behavior of aviation companies could be most questioned if which of the following were true?

A. The best interests of aviation companies often conflict with the best interests of their passengers.
B. An aviation company might lose passengers if the company, by screening passengers for risk of respiratory issues, seemed to suggest that taking its flights entailed a high risk of respiratory issues. 
C. Flying might involve health risks other than the risk of respiratory issues.
D. Passengers who have an eighty percent chance of suffering from respiratory issues may not know that their risk is so great.
E. There is no legally accepted method for reliably determining the risk of a passenger suffering respiratory issues as a result of flying.

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Adit_ · Answer

Option E  appropriately conveys that if there is no legally accepted method to determine respiratory issues then the whole plan of the law in regulating the behavior of aviation companies fails.

Ujjwalk31 · Answer

A law regulates company behavior by setting clear conditions for permissible actions, like refusing passengers with an 80% respiratory risk during flight.
Core Flaw in Effectiveness
Without a legally accepted, reliable method to assess that exact 80% risk threshold, companies lack a practical basis to invoke the right consistently.
This renders the law ineffective for guiding or standardizing refusals, as determinations would be arbitrary or impossible.

Why Not Others
A: Interest conflicts exist regardless but don't hinder the law's directive power.
B: Business deterrence from screening is a disincentive, not a question of the law's enforceability.
C: Irrelevant to respiratory-specific criteria.
D: Passenger ignorance doesn't impede company risk evaluation.

ANS = E

postAlone · Answer

The law's  effectiveness  depends on the ability to actually identify the 80% risk.
 
  The Logic:  If you can't measure the risk, you can't enforce the rule. 
  Choice E:  Directly states there is  no reliable way  to determine that risk. This makes the law impossible to apply, rendering it useless.

Why other options fail:
 
  A (Conflict of Interest):  Too general; doesn't address the specific mechanics of this law. 
  B (Loss of Customers):  This is a business concern (PR), but it doesn't make the law itself "ineffective" to use. 
  C (Other Risks):  Irrelevant. The law only cares about respiratory issues. 
  D (Passenger Ignorance):  It doesn't matter if the passenger knows; the law is about the  company's  right to refuse them.

ExpertsGlobal5 · Answer

E is the best choice.  
 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk3a-S6N8HI

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