Meade: People who are injured as a result of their risky behaviors not ... ...

Meade: People who are injured as a result of their risky behaviors not only cause harm to themselves but, because we all have important ties to other people, inevitably impose emotional and financial costs on others. To protect the interests of others, therefore, governments are justified in outlawing behavior that puts one’s own health at risk.

Which one of the following principles, if valid, most undermines the reasoning in Meade’s argument?


(A) Endangering the social ties that one has to other people is itself a harm to oneself.
(B) ...
(C) ...
(D) ...
(E) ...

*This question is included in PT72 (Jun 2014): Logical Reasoning B