Trade official: Country X deserves economic retribution for its protectionism. However, it is crucial that we recognize that there are overriding considerations in this case. We should still sell to X the agricultural equipment it ordered; there is high demand in our country for agricultural imports from X. The argument depends on assuming which one of the following principles?
A: In most cases, punishing a projectionist country should have priority over the interests of our people.
B: We should balance the justice of an action with the consequences for our interests of undertaking that action.
C: We should never jeopardize the interests of our people to punish a projectionist country.
D: The ability to keep popular products available domestically is less important than our being able to enter international markets.
Choose A, B, C or D as your solution.
B