Self-study
Principle: Support It is unethical for someone who has bought an item to return it to the store after getting all the use from it that he or she ever intended to get.
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Summary
Principle:
return item you bought after getting all use you intended to get → unethical
Premise: James purchased a video camera and returned it to the store two weeks later.
Conclusion: James’s return was unethical.
Find or Complete the Application
We want to learn that James returned the camera after getting all the use he intended to get out of it.
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a
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(A) doesn’t speak to James’s intentions. So, it doesn’t help establish that he got all the use out of the camera that he wanted to get.
b
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(B) establishes James’s intentions: he wanted to avoid having to hire a professional videographer for his sister’s graduation party. And, (B) tells us that he returned the camera immediately after the party. So, (B) helps establish that James got all the use out of the camera that he intended. That’s why (B) most justifies application of the principle.
c
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What did James intend? Did he fulfill those intentions before returning the camera? (C) doesn’t tell us. If anything, (C) suggests that James might have returned the camera because of the broken features.
d
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(D) suggests that James might have returned the camera because he found a cheaper way to get it. But it has nothing to do with James’s intentions for the camera and whether he fulfilled those intentions before returning it.
e
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(E) tells us that James used the camera “in the manner for which he bought it.” Does this suggest that he got all the use out of the camera that he intended? No, because we don’t know whether he wanted to use the camera more before returning it.