Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task, you're given a statement and three sentences as choices. Your job is to determine which sentence can be inferred from the statement. Incorrect choices change the meaning in important ways or have details that are not mentioned in the statement. Indicate your answer as 1,2, or 3 corresponding to the choice number of the selected sentence.

Statement: yeah well the only thing that might save him is that in the backs of their minds they may think that they don't want to hurt him permanently Choices: 1. They don't want to perpetually hurt him because they could lose their careers. 2. Nothing will be able to save him because they are ruthless and do not have something in the back of their minds. 3. He could be spared simply because they might ponder the idea of avoiding hurting him perpetually.
3