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.

Q: claim: Should Turkey Be Accepted In The EU.
 perspective: The EU will not benefit by adding a country with an unstable democracy in an unstable part of the world.

A: undermine
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Q: claim: Encourage fewer people to go to university.
 perspective: College graduates tend to have healthier, better educated offspring.

A: undermine
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Q: claim: It is good to gossip.
 perspective: The gossip market is too large as it is. We should be careful about encouraging this intellectual dumbing down of our reading material. 

A:
undermine
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