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Argument234 by beetle1986 In this story, by making a comparison of a small town of Leeville, a region of better health and greater longevity, with a large city of Mason City, an area of more proportion of physicians but more sick leave days and lower average age, the arguer concludes that to seek longer and healthier lives, people should move to small communities. However, this conclusion is based on two assumptions that have not been proved. The first assumption is that residents of a small town are healthier than that of a big city. The evidence that the arguer supplied is not convictive. The arguer did not apply what kinds of works in Leeville and that in Mason, if this information is missing, the contrast between workers of two places would be nonsense. Additionally, less proportion of physicians does not mean that residents of Leeville are so healthy that need not so many doctors, it is probably that most medicine resources concentrated in the big cities, and it is reasonable to imagine that the residents in small towns have to seek doctors in remote areas. The second assumption is that residents of small town could live longer than that of big city. The arguer could not mention the components of residents of Leeville, maybe most striping work hard in Mason earning a live, and most senior citizens choose a relaxed manner of living in a small non-industrial town, that of course the town can has a higher average age. In such situation, the average age of the town is determined by the movement of senior citizens, not by the town itself, so unless the arguer offer more evidence to testify that some special conditions of Leeville, such as fresh air, beautiful scenery, that can make its residents live longer, I will doubt that the assumption cannot support the conclusion of the arguer. Finally, it has many factors, such as condition of medicine, education, price of home, live level, etc. that could influence where would you live in. In most situations, we cannot satisfy all of these conditions. So, if one want to live longer and healthier, and success in business too, he should have a good consider about something he has to give up. To sum up, the arguer intends to imply that living in small towns promotes better health and greater longevity than does the hectic pace of life in big cities. But he fails to supply the critical evidences to justify his opinion. To make the recommendation more convictive, he should find out more direct evidences. |