A leading critic of space exploration contends that it would be wrong, given current technology, to send a group of explorers to Mars, since the explorers would be unlikely to survive the trip. But that exaggerates the risk. There would be a well-engineered backup system at every stage of the long and complicated journey. A fatal catastrophe is quite unlikely at any given stage if such a backup system is in place. The reasoning in the argument is flawed in that the argument
A: infers that something cannot occur merely from the fact that it is unlikely to occur
B: rejects a view merely on the grounds that an inadequate argument has been made for it
C: draws a conclusion about what must be the case based on evidence about what is probably the case
D: infers that something is true of a whole merely from the fact that it is true of each of the parts
Choose A, B, C or D as your solution.
D