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发表于 2006-7-30 19:11:14 |只看该作者 |倒序浏览

In the argument, the arguer claims that residents of Clearview should vote for Ann Gree, a member of Good Earth Coalition, rather than for Frank Braun, a member of the Clearview town council for the reason that Frank was thought to breach of duty on the native pollution problem. To verify the claim, the arguer cites results that the number of factories in Clearview has doubled and air pollution levels have increased during the past year. In addition, the arguer points that 25 percent more patients with respiratory illness were treated in the local hospital and thus concludes Ann, if be elected, will solve the environment problem without doubt. This argument, however, suffers several critical fallacies after a careful reflection.

First of all, there is an assumption existing that the pollution was caused by Clearview itself, while pollution is a global problem as known to as. In the fact, it may been caused by those pollutive factories of neighbor town and it is the wind brings it to Clearview and thus deteriorates the environment, which is totally independent of native town council, let alone Frank’s business. Besides, we have no information considering whether or not the factories invested in the town are pollutive that might bring contamination or whether the waste dealing measure is effective. Further, a large amount of patients with respiratory illness treated in the local hospital may be travelers coming from other place. Therefore, all the evidence is not solid enough to assure it is Clearview itself causing the pollution and thus can’t conclude that Frank Braun is responsible to pollution.

Second, there is another assumption that mayor’s responsibility is only taking charge of something relating to environment, which is apparently incorrect. In the fact, as we know, there’re a lot of demands on a people to be a leader, such as intellect, knowledge, interpersonal skills, correlative experience, and so on. Probably, Ann Green, if being chosen to be a mayor, can’t not handle all of the things, including arranging some work, communicating between departments, negotiation, guidance, and even he can’t get pollution work done since there’re a lot of complicated work to do with pollution treatment while Ann Green may just pay more attention to environment problem and have no experience at all. Eventually, before making such kind of conclusion the arguer would have to provide more information regarding every aspect talent of Ann Green.

Finally, it is not an alternative choice between Ann Green and Frank Braun to assume the office of mayor. There should be other candidates who may equipped enough to handle most affairs properly including environment problem, which are not considered at all in the argument.

To sum up, the conclusion lacks credibility because the evidence cited in the analysis does not lend strong support to what the arguer maintains. And the arguer would still have to provide more evidence to strengthen the argument.