Select the reasoning that challenges support for the ethical case for free trade and international economic cooperation. Select the reasoning that challenges support for the ethical case for free trade and international economic cooperation. Economic integration is a major impediment to conflictthe more countries cooperate economically, the less likely they will want to go to war. International competition for labor, jobs, goods and services, natural resources, and capital will, over time, increase the overall well-being of everyone. The pursuit of profit within social and economic arrangements that secure free and open competition will allocate resources to their most highly valued uses and distribute those resources in ways that will produce the greatest good for the greatest number of people. Even though newly employed workers in the poorer countries who are forced to take jobs that are at a subsistence level in sweatshop conditions are better off in these jobs than they would be without them, the choice to work under such conditions is little more than extortion and exploitation by business