Magazine article: Punishment for crimes is justified if it actually deters people from committing them. But a great deal of carefully assembled and analyzed empirical data show clearly that punishment is not a deterrent. So punishment is never justified. The reasoning in the magazine article's argument is flawed because the argument
A: attempts to be more precise than its subject matter properly allows
B: ignores the problem of mistakenly punishing the innocent
C: mistakenly allows the key term "punishment" to shift in meaning
D: mistakes being sufficient to justify punishment for being required to justify it
Choose A, B, C or D as your solution.
D