instruction:
In this task you will be given a claim and a perspective. You should determine whether that perspective supports or undermines the claim. If the perspective could possibly convince someone with different view, it is supporting, otherwise it is undermining.
question:
claim: Pay state school teachers based on merit.
 perspective: Teachers will have an incentive to improve their teaching.
answer:
support


question:
claim: Christians should be allowed to wear the Cross at work.
 perspective: If this were about wearing a badge with a political slogan or something similar, everyone would agree that it was inappropriate. The same principle should apply to iconography.
answer:
undermine


question:
claim: Actively circumventing Internet censorship is a legitimate foreign policy tool.
 perspective: Aggressive foreign policy is not legitimate foreign policy
answer:

undermine