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When investigators discovered that the director of a local charity had repeatedly overstated the number of people his charity had helped, the director accepted responsibility for the deception. ████████ ███ █████████████ ███████ ████ ███████████ ████ ██ ████ ██ █████ ██ ███ ████████ ███ ███ █████████ ███ █████████ ███████████ █████ ████ ███ ████████ ████████ ████ ███ ████████ ████ █████ ███ ██████ ████████ ██ ████ ███ ███████ ██ ████ █████
Summary
Because journalists had accepted the lies the director of a charity told them and reported the numbers he provided, they are as much to blame as he is for misleadingly improving the charity’s reputation.
Notable Assumptions
The argument’s conclusion places responsibility on the journalists, but the premises only provide a statement of what they did. The argument doesn’t provide a direct link between the fact that they naively reported the director’s lies and the fact that they’re therefore responsible for the deception. We’re looking for some principle that explains why the journalists’ naivety means they’re to blame for the situation.
23.
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a
Anyone who works ███ █ ██████████ ████████████ ██ ███████ ██ ██ ██████████ ██████ █████ ███ ██████████ ██ ████ █████████████
b
Anyone who knowingly ████ █ ████ ██ ██████ ██ ███████ ███ █████ ████ ██████ ██ ████ █ █████
c
Anyone who presents ██ ███████ █ █████ ████ █████ ███ ██ ██ ██████ ███████ █████ ██████████ ██ ██████ ████ █████ ██ ██ ████ ███████████ ███ ███ ████████████ ██ ████ █████ ████ ██████ ████ ███
d
Anyone who lies ██ █████ ██ ███████ ███ ██ ███ ███ ██████ ██ ████ █████████ ██ █████ ████ ███████ ███ ████ ██ █████ ██ ███████ █ ████ ██████
e
Anyone who accepts ██████████████ ███ █ ████████ ███ ████ ██ ██ ███ █████████ ██ ████ █████████ ██ █████ ████ ███████ ███ █████ ██ ███████ ███ ██ ███ ███ ███████████