The following argument is valid or forceful. Identify the irrelevant premise: The Kobayashi Maru scenario is impossible to beat, so if anyone beat it, then they must have cheated in some way. James T. Kirk is the only person ever to have beaten the Kobayashi Maru scenario and he would do anything to win, so he must have cheated in some way.
A) The Kobayashi Maru scenario is impossible to beat.
B) James T. Kirk would do anything to win.
C) If anyone beat the Kobayashi Maru scenario, then that person cheated in some way.
D) James T. Kirk beat the Kobayashi Maru scenario.

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The irrelevant premise is that James T. Kirk would do anything to win. It does not necessarily prove that he cheated in beating the Kobayashi Maru scenario.

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