In considering public policy about punishment, a utilitarian would argue that punishment is justified if:

a. The pain and suffering to those who are punished is outweighed by the benefits of punishment
b. Those benefits cannot be achieved with less suffering
c. Those benefits cannot be achieved at a lower cost to those who are being punished
d. All of the above


d. All of the above

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Which of the following is an accurate statement about references?

A. Only sources cited multiple times need to appear in the reference page. B. All citations in the manuscript must appear in the reference list, and all references must be cited in the text. C. The reference list should contain a list of all citations found during a literature search regardless of whether it is used in the paper. D. The reference list is optional.

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During the reign of LTTE, democracy had been absent, but why was it easy to implement democracy afterwards?

a. Since there was democracy beforehand, re-establishing it was easier than establishing it for the first time. b. The United Nations stepped in to help provide most of the funding to get the country started again and provided them with a Constitution. c. The LTTE carefully handed over power to democracy in order to maintain peace between citizens. d. The LTTE had pushed out Al Qaeda and other religious terror groups so there was no threat of an Islamic caliphate or some other form of theocracy.

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