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发表于 2010-5-10 01:48:35
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本帖最后由 lynnuana 于 2010-5-10 04:15 编辑
例子(去年工厂数量翻倍-->空气污染升级 & local医院respiratory的人多了25%) -->环境污染-->town council 现任成员没有保护环境-->C人应该投票给AG(GEC成员),不要给FB(town council)-->环境问题会得到解决
The speaker suggests Clearview residents to vote to Ann Green, a member of the Good Earth Coalition, rather than to the town-council member Frank Braun, based on his assumption that the town council should be responsible for the environment pollution in Clearview for which she cites a significant increase in the number of Clearview factories and hospital patients treated for respiratory illnesses during the last year as supporting statements. In the closing sentence, he guarantees that electing Green will absolutely solve the environmental problems in Clearview. However, this argument is logically flawed in several critical respects which require further observation.
The speaker claims that the current town council is responsible for several problems existing in the Clearview community and therefore Frank Braun should not be elected. Nevertheless, the problems he cites such as the increasing number of factories and the patients suffering respiratory disease are wrongly attributed to the local town council. Let’s divide these items and analyze to make a distinction between each. First, the speaker fails to give any information that the factories bring about the air pollution. Primarily, these new factories are probably not the polluting enterprises—for instance, petrochemical plants, gas-power plants or paper mills--but the green industries such as precision instrument factories or garment factories which may hardly pollute the air. Moreover, even if the new factories maybe thought to somewhat cause air pollution, the managers probably have considered these problems and spared no effort to control it. Last, it is partial to merely ascribe the air pollution to the increase of the factories; for all we know,a great deal of pollution is also caused by cars. Second, the speaker errs in the nexus between the respiratory illnesses and air pollution; he does not give any clue to persuade the reader that it is the air pollution that causes the growing number of the patients suffering respiratory disease. The cause could be the seasonal allergies, the increasing number of people who begin to smoke, the various incubation periods for the patients and so forth. In short, the examples the speaker indicates to support his view could not actually be the cause of air pollution in Clearview. Thus, evidently, more information should be provided to help evaluate the performance of town council in dealing with environment pollution, rather than such unsound evidence.
Furthermore, no evidence reveals that Ann Green would become an effective leader in the future. The speaker merely mentions that she is a member of the Good Earth Coalition--which maybe qualified for the position—but not indicates her previous experience or working capabilities for the new job. It is certainly possible that she is a tyro or entirely unfamiliar with the local condition. It is also possible that her rival, Frank Braun, by contrast, may have more than 10 years of experience and be a well-known professional in this area. Therefore, it is hard for the residents to vote for Ann with a limited background introduction of the two candidates; and eventually, the claim of the author in closing that “if we elect Ann Green, the environmental problems in Clearview will certainly be solved” would be unsubstantiated as well.
To sum up, with the basis of the inadequate evidence provided in the editorial, the speaker fails to make a persuasive conclusion. To bolster his recommendation, he must provide better evidence to support that Clearview does has environmental problems and that Ann is more proper for the position than Frank. |
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