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TOPIC:ARGUMENT 67 - The following appeared in a letter to the editor of a newspaper serving the villages of Castorville and Polluxton.
"Both the villages of Castorville and Polluxton have experienced sharp declines in the numbers of residents who pay property taxes. To save money and improve service, the two villages recently merged their once separate garbage collection departments into a single department located in Castorville, and the new department has reported few complaints about its service. Last year the library in Polluxton had 20 percent fewer users than during the previous year. It follows that we should now further economize and improve service, as we did with garbage collection, by closing the library in Polluxton and using the library in Castorville to serve both villages."
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1 whether the measure of combination of the two garbage collection departments would be efficient is open to doubt. (the reliability of the report, the unfair service may exist )
2 the measure to the two libraries is distinct from the combination of the garbage department, only by imitating, we cannot expert the same result. The real declination of the users of Polluxton’s library has not been analyzed. Moreover, the residents in Polluxton may not enjoy the library in Castorville well for many reasons.
3 distinct samples. The different conditions of the two villages affect us to made any decisions about the two libraries.
The argument is well-presented, but not thoroughly well-reasoned. By referring to the combination of the garbage collection departments in the two villages, the author recommendations that only using the library in Castorville seems logically reasonable.
However, with closer examination of the incidence of the measure of collaboration between the two garbage collection in Castorville and Polluxton, we might ask the question that whether the combination will bring the expected consequence of the improvement of the service and the saving of money. Obviously, we are not informed by the author that after the combination of the different garbage collection department, the relevant facilities and services for the residents of both villages would significantly enhanced. Although there are no reports concerning the complaints about the new garbage collection department being disclosing by itself, we cannot ensure that it is the case that the complaints have not happened. It is entirely possible that the new department conceal the inefficiency and the unsatisfied service of the garbage collection after the collaboration. In addition, the author has not guaranteed that both of the residents in the two villages obtained the equally treatment/service of the new department which located in Castorville because there is the possibility that the habitants in Polluxtion might acquire the comparatively worse service due to the distant location from the new department.
Moreover, even assuming that the combination brought about expected and excellent service to both citizens in Castorville and Polluxton, we should scrutinize the distinct measure the author strongly suggests has the equivalent effects on both villages' residents to enjoy the library in Castorville. Frankly speaking, I am strongly suspicious that the library in Castorville would bring the same convenience to the residents in Polluxton as to people in Castorville. Firstly, we are not informed that the traffic between the two villages are convenient for the journey by which both the habitants of distinct villages to enjoy. Perhaps it is a long distance for people in Polluxton to arrive at Castorville to take advantage of the resource in Castorville's library. Secondly, the author has not provide any information concerning the service of both libraries in the two locations before we cannot infer any conclusion based on the fact that the users of Polluxton's library has decreased by 20 percent that the library in Castorville did a better job than the one in Polluxton. It is highly possible that the library in Castorville has fewer users or the number of its readers declined more significantly than that of Polluxton. Thirdly, without comparison of the previous service and resource in both libraries and also without provision of the educational level, the economical and traffic conditions and the demographic statistics of both villages' populations, the implement which has been strongly supported by the author cannot keep a beneficial influence on the residents of both villiages.
Overall, the reasoning behind the author's suggestion that by imitating the combination of the garbage collection departments in the two villages, they could economize and improve the service by only using the library in Polluxton seems sound at the first glance. However, the differences between the two villages call for a refutation to this argument that before any decisions are made for the utilitarian of library we should evaluate all the alternatives and causes for the measure-maybe a combination of both libraries, maybe merge both of them into a new one in Polluxton.
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