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TOPIC: ARGUMENT7 - The following appeared in a letter to the editor of the Clearview newspaper.
"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."
WORDS: 427 TIME: 0:34:47 DATE: 2007-3-24
The author asserts that environmental problems in Clearview will be solved by electing Ann Green as mayor. However, since the author fails to give firm evidence on the assumptions he/she has made, the conclusion is unpersuasive as it stands.
First, there is little evidence contributing to the assumption that Clearview town council has not made efforts to protect the environment, thus the environmental problems all around. The increase of number of factories may be because of high supports of other group to build more factories to develop industry which directly leads to the increase of air pollution levels. However, on such case, the town council holds an opposite opinion. Also, the increase of people suffering from respiratory illnesses may not be the results of environmental problems, instead, is because of sudden change of the temperature, or because more and more people are moving here. Either case may perfectly indicate the innocent of town council in neglecting environmental protection.
Further, even though the town council did make no efforts in protecting the environment, this does not mean Frank Braun supports such behavior. Since the author does not provide any evidence to show Frank Braun's attitude toward this fact, it is entirely possible that Frank has strongly struggled against such behavior, keeping arguing about the importance of protecting the environment. However, his suggestion was not accepted by the council. If so, the election of Frank may mean much care about environmental problems and effective protections.
Finally, even we admit that Frank Braun does not pay enough attention to environmental protection, voting for Ann Green may not be able to make things better. After all, there is little evidence to show Good Earth Coalition and Ann's attitude toward environmental protection, hence, we can never ignore such possibility that Ann also thinks it unnecessary to do much on protecting environment, and highly evaluates Clearview town council's former behaviors, preparing to follow their example. If so, voting for Ann may also turn out to be a huge mistake. And also, we can never neglect the possible existence of other candidates, who may be more suitable to be the mayor and will more effectively handle the problems.
In sum, lacking enough evidence to support the author's assumptions makes this final conclusions far from convincing. If the author tries to make it more reasonable, a series of evidence to show Frank's relevance to the ignorance of environmental protection and the causal relationship between town council's behaviors and the environmental problems. Moreover, detailed evidence on Ann's capability to solve environmental problems should also be offered. |
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