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"Seven years ago, homeowners in nearby Brookville community adopted a set of restrictions on how the community's yards should be landscaped and what colors the exteriors of homes should be painted. Since then, average property values have tripled in Brookville. In order to raise property values in Deerhaven Acres, we should adopt our own set of restrictions on landscaping and housepainting."
WORDS: 579 TIME: 0:33:39 DATE: 2006-10-17
提纲:
1 The causal relation between the restriction and average property values is not well proved.
2 The situation in Brookville is a hasty generalization to Deerahaven Acres.
3 The time makes such suggestions frail.
The author suggests that Deerhaven Acres should adopt its own set of restrictions on landscaping and housepainting, by stating the situation that Brookville community adopted a set of such restrictions and their average property values tripled in the past years. However, in my view such suggestion suffers from a frail causal logical relationship between property values and landscape or housepainting and a hasty generalization from Brookville to Deerhaven Acres.
First, the author link the landscaping and housepainting as reasons to the tripled average property values in Brookville only based on the reality that these two things happens one after another. No evidence is provided to illustrate the landscape and colors of houses have certainly resulted in propelling the property values' development. Although good landscape can have a beneficial influence on people's moods, how this can provide high property values is not detailed. Anyway, whether Brookville had other measures for their property value development at the same time of adopting a set of restriction is not known. It is entirely possible Brookville has good economy situations and developed strong industries during the past seven years, which call all be the power to rise their average property values. Meanwhile, whether the set of restrictions is effective is also lack of evidence. The citizens may not obey it and the relevant agency can neglect such restrictions, without the survey of landscape situation in Brookville.
Another fundamental problem with this suggestion is that it asks Deerhaven Acres simply to copy what Brookville did, which can be generalized as a hasty generalization. We are not given any information about the people's interests in either of two communities, so well as the natural conditions, economical levels and so forth. Even if the rised average property values in Brookville are due to adopting a set of restrictions, it is unpersuading to say Deerhaven Acres can benefit from this measure as well. Such restrictions may be useless but only cumbersome if the people in Deerhaven Acres do not have ability to paint their houses or are not founded of painted houses. Also, if the weather of Deerhaven Acres is always rainy, paint can be washed away easily, making the restriction lavishing. To compare with, Brookville might be good to build a well planned landscape and colored houses are popular there, which is different from the situation in Deerhaven Acres.
Additionally, the set of restrictions in Brookville was adopted seven years ago, in which time the whole conditions may changed obviously. Even if the situation of Deerhaven Acres is similar to Brookville for adopting the restrictions, the market and people's habits may possibly be diversified after such a long time. The Brookville's residents are supposed to be adapted with such landscape and colors in the first several years, with the cost that their property values decreased, and came to the tripled values deviously in the end. Such experience may not be worthy for Deerhaven Acres and they may have better and more effective ways to manage its landscape.
To sum up, the suggestion lacks credibility and feasibility because evidence in the analysis does not base on illustrated logical relation and such evidence is supporting the conclusion in an invalid way. To strengthen the argument, the author would have to prove that restricted landscape and housepainting can give a good influence on average property values, as well as such benefit can exist in Deerhaven Acres as what it operates in Brookville. Without such issues, the suggestion should not be accepted.
第一次写ARGUE全文, 发现字数也不好凑……感觉有些话来回说了,似乎也用不了那么多字就能把问题说清楚的…… |
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