Although it is now known that using a mobile phone on an aircraft is safe, people should still be prevented from using one. Sitting next to someone talking on a phone for hours is annoying, and mobility is so limited on a plane that many passengers will be forced to listen to long conversations that they cannot avoid.
Which one of the following principles, if established, would justify the reasoning in the preceding passage?
A)If an activity is possible in a situation, then it should be allowed in that situation.
B)In certain situations, people should be banned from engaging in otherwise acceptable activity if the consequences for that activity are sufficiently bothersome to others.
C)All activity that is a potential nuisance should be banned.
D)People who regularly engage in a bothersome activity should be forced to stop that activity.
E)In certain situations, people must accept that while an activity is bothersome or a nuisance, it does not stop that person from having the right to behave as he pleases, so long as the behavior is not a danger.

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The passage reasons that in certain situations, people should be banned from engaging in otherwise acceptable activity if the consequences for that activity are sufficiently bothersome to others. The passage is not asserting that talking on a phone should always be banned or that all bothersome activity should be banned, but only that it should be banned on a plane due to the specific conditions on board a plane.

Although It Is Now Known That Using a Mobile Phone