Consider the following dialogue: Mike: The state needs to make companies pay for the degradation that they cause to our natural environment. Ike: That's ridiculous! It's like arguing that the state needs to make unpleasant people pay for the degradation that they cause to our social environment. In this dialogue, Ike is trying to
A.
offer a silencing argument against Mike.
B.
offer a dismisser argument against Mike.
C.
refute Mike's argument by parallel reasoning.
D.
refute Mike's argument by counterexample.
E.
refute Mike's argument by interexample.