"Compromising with an enemy in your midst is like trying to reason with a cancer in the body.The doctor does not compromise with the cancer-he cuts it out before it can spread."
Of the choices below, which counteranalogy most decisively refutes this argument?
A)People are rational agents and cancers are not.
B)If a person can be a cancer then we could call anything we don't like a disease like taxes or tornadoes.
C)A doctor who performs surgery when other less drastic measures would have worked instead is a bad doctor-perhaps even a criminal.
D)Calling people of other ethnic backgrounds "cancers" is like calling them "cockroaches"-it is certainly bigotry.

Question

"Compromising with an enemy in your midst is like trying to reason with a cancer in the body.The doctor does not compromise with the cancer-he cuts it out before it can spread."
 Of the choices below, which counteranalogy most decisively refutes this argument?
A)People are rational agents and cancers are not.
B)If a person can be a cancer then we could call anything we don't like a disease like taxes or tornadoes.
C)A doctor who performs surgery when other less drastic measures would have worked instead is a bad doctor-perhaps even a criminal.
D)Calling people of other ethnic backgrounds "cancers" is like calling them "cockroaches"-it is certainly bigotry.

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The Answer is C

"Compromising with an Enemy in Your Midst Is Like Trying