argument7 求拍！

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Argument7: In the next mayoral election, residents of Clearview should vote for Ann Green, who is a member of the Good Earth Coalition, rather than for Frank Braun, a member of the Clearview town council, because the current members are not protecting our environment. For example, during the past year the number of factories in Clearview has doubled, air pollution levels have increased, and the local hospital has treated 25 percent more patients with respiratory illnesses. If we elect Ann Green, the environmental problems in Clearview will certainly be solved.

The letter suffers from several serious logic flaws. The author encourages residents of Clearview to vote for Ann Green who is a member of Good Earth Coalition instead of Frank Braun who is in town council in the next mayor election. The facts provided in the letter that the number of factories is as twice as before and the number of patients who are treated as respiratory disease has increased due to worse air condition.

To begin with, the assertion that the plan of building more factories is made by town council is unwarranted. The increased number of factories is maybe simply due to rapidly increased demand for products. Or perhaps it is the government rather than town council made the decision to set up more factories. The author could attest to the assertion unless these scenarios can be ruled out.

Granted that it is town council that determined to up the number of factories, it may not be Frank Braun’s idea. Although Frank Braun is a member of town council, any decision would be made by all the members instead of only one person. There is a chance that Frank Braun held completely opposite opinion but they did not adopt his opinion.

In addition, it is quite unfair to claim that the fact more patients are treated for respiratory disease attributed to air pollution. The fact that more people go to hospital to treat for respiratory disease does not indicate more respiratory disease, it is possible that a great part of these people just care about their health but not patients.

In the third place, having not been given the base amount of respiratory patients, the author can not conclude that air condition is much worse just resort to the 25% increase. The amount of patients before could be extremely small, as a result, the 25% increase would be even more slight that can not be taken seriously.

In the forth place, factors which could lead residents to respiratory disease are of a great amount besides bad air condition. Perhaps a large number of the people who moved to Clearview are already respiratory patients before their moving. It is also possible that people get this disease because of bad water condition, more working pressure and bad eating habits. The author fails to provide evidence that last year is an aberration.

Finally, the author can not support his suggestion that Ann Green could solve all these environmental problems. Merely the fact Ann is a member of Good Earth Coalition does not necessarily indicates she really care about environment. There is no evidence showing that Ann is not satisfied with Clearview’s environment and is willing to improve it.

All in all, the foregoing discussion reveals how the article is flawed. More accurate statistics concerning the number of respiratory patients and more evidence to show that Frank Braun should be responsible for the bad environment condition will render the argument more logical. If the author could provide more information about how to improve the environmental condition, the argument would be perfect.