Civil libertarian: The categorical prohibition of any nonviolent means of expression inevitably poisons a society' s intellectual atmosphere. Ttherefore, those advocating censorship of all potentially offensive art are pursuing a course that is harmful to society. Censorship advocate: You' re wrong, because many people are in agreement about what constitutes potentially offensive art. The censorship advocate's rebuttal is flawed because it
A: relies on an irrelevant reason for rejecting the civil libertarian's argument
B: attempts to extract a general rule from a specific case
C: extracts an erroneous principle from a commonly held belief
D: attacks the civil libertarian's character instead of the argument
Choose A, B, C or D as your solution.
A