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Support In 1992, there were over 250 rescues of mountain climbers, costing the government almost 3 million dollars. ████ ████ ██ ██████ ████ ██ ████████ ███████ ████ █████ ████ ███ ████████ █████ ███ █████ ████ █████ ███████ ██ █ ████ █████ ████ ████████ █ ███████ ███████████ █████████ ███ ████████ ██ ████ █ █████ ███ ██ █████ ██ ██ █████████ ██ ███ ██████████ ██ ████ ██ █████████
Summarize Argument
The task force recommends an arrangement where climbers forfeit money to the government if they need rescuing. Why? Because mountain climbing is dangerous, and rescuing mountain climbers cost the government almost 3 million dollars in one year.
Notable Assumptions
The task force assumes the proposed agreement will either create an incentive strong enough to reduce the number of mountain climbers, thus reducing the number who die or need rescuing, or raise enough money to pay for those rescues. They assume it should be the responsibility of a mountain climber to pay for their own rescue, rather than the government.
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Taxpayers should not █████████ █ ██████ ██████ █████ ███ ████████ ████████ ██ ████████████
This principle supports the proposal, which would shift the financial burden of mountain climbing rescues from taxpayers to the climbers.
b
The government is ███████ ██ ████ ████████ ██ █████ ██████ ████ ███████ █████ ██████
This principle supports the proposal, which creates a strong financial incentive against dangerous climbing by making climbers pay for their own evacuations.
c
For physically risky ██████ ███ ██████████ ██████ █████ ███████ ████ ██ ██████ ███ ████ ███ ██ █████ ███████ ████████ ██ ███ ██████
This principle doesn’t apply. There’s no indication the proposal in question is available only to those with some training in mountain climbing.
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Citizens who use ████████ ██████████ ██████ ████████ ██████ ██ ████████ ██ ███ ████ ██████ ███ ████ ██ █████ ████████ ████ ████████ ███ ██ ████
This principle supports the proposal, which would make mountain climbers who use public rescue services pay more for those services than people who don’t.
e
People who engage ██ ██████████ █████ ████████ ████ ██ ███ █████████ ██ ████████ ███████ ██████ ██ ████ ███████████ ███ ███ ████ ██ ████████ ███ █████████ █████████
This principle supports the proposal, which would make risk-taking mountain climbers who suffer “calamity” and need government help—such as rescuing and medical care—responsible for the cost of that help.