Read the following facts then choose the correct option: X is walking home on an extremely hot afternoon. He notices two children locked in a car. The children are clearly suffocating from the intense heat. X breaks open the car window and pulls the children out of the car. X then proceeds to set the car alight and destroy it. X is charged with malicious injury to property:

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X cannot rely on necessity because of the origin of the situation of necessity (in this case the extreme heat)

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X can validly rely on the ground of justification of necessity

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X can validly rely on necessity since the lives of the children are worth more than a car

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X cannot rely on necessity since he caused more harm than is necessary

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