Self-study
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Summary
Some people prefer to avoid facing unpleasant truths. These people resent those who force them into a confrontation with unwanted honesty. Other people dislike having any information withheld from them, including painful information.
Strongly Supported Conclusions
If people who prefer to avoid facing unpleasant truths are guided by the directive to treat others how they would want to be treated, they would withhold painful information from those who want all information given to them.
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This is unsupported because we don’t know in which situations members of the former group would usually be willing to speak.
b
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This is strongly supported because those in the former group, who wish to have painful information withheld, would do the same and withhold painful information from the latter group. The latter group does not like having any information withheld.
c
those in the ██████ █████ ████ ██ ██████ ██ ██ ████████ █████████ █████████ ██ ████████
This is unsupported because we don’t know what principles of behavior guide those in the latter group.
d
those in the ██████ █████ ████ ███████ ██ ██████████ ██████████ ██████
This is unsupported because we don’t know that the latter group would reciprocate if the former group started withholding painful truths.
e
the result will ████ ████ ███ ████████ ██ ████ ██████
This is anti-supported because if the former group treated the latter how the former would want to be treated, then the former group would withhold painful information to the dismay of the latter group.