Therapist: "People suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD, often struggle with social anxiety. PTSD symptoms are especially severe for people who already struggled with anxiety prior to developing PTSD. PTSD is common in military veterans, so it is important for the military to test people for anxiety disorders before they join in order to prevent people who will be more heavily impacted by PTSD from suffering its consequences."
Which one of the following principles, if valid, most helps justify the conclusion of the argument?
A)Therapists have a duty to understand how and why some people suffer more from certain disorders than others.
B)If people are likely to suffer a disease, steps should be taken to ensure that their risk is lessened.
C)The military should not refuse people the opportunity to serve just because something is more likely to happen to them.
D)Mental illnesses should be treated just like physical illnesses.
E)The military has a duty to only accept the most qualified recruits, and social anxiety is a weakness that cannot be tolerated.

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The argument's conclusion is that if people are likely to suffer a disease, steps should be taken to ensure that their risk is lessened. The therapist is calling for the military to identify people at risk for PTSD and take steps to make sure they are not affected.

Therapist: "People Suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD