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Issue 130: How children are socialized today determines the destiny of society. Unfortunately, we have not yet learned how to raise children who can help bring about a better society.
The destiny of society is heavily decided on the generation who are living in and contributing to. The children today we foster doom to be the back stone of tomorrow’s society, so important that how we raise children. Despite there are some problem with the adolescent and children, actually, we already learned the method which renders to bring about a better society in the future.
Admittedly, there are some problems with the children today. More and more families own only a child who is mollycoddled by parents and grandparents. Child baste on their parents’ fortune would be not likely to thrive himself, the more indolent and spendthrift, the more indifferent and less helpful to the society they are. Moreover the parents who ignore the children moral standards would cause them pervert more likely, such as teen pregnancy, drug taker and juvenile crime. The recent gunshots on campus such as last year's shooting at Virginia Tech or the attack at the University of Texas at Austin are highly relevant with the revengeful and stressful children, which shock the society to realize the importance of children moral education.
However, as parents, we all know that the important and dutiful obligation of raising children to nice persons who are the useful to the society. We teach them ethical and moral virtues such as honesty, integrity, trustworthiness, reliability, and other “Ten Commandments” rules of personal conduct all the time. Besides, they receive the education from the schools and colleges, where not only acquire information and skills but also raise their moral and spiritual standards. Moreover, the society also should take the responsibility to raise children, censoring the violate and sex TV program and film, showing children in public media more exemplified models who contribute much to the society instead of the popular singer or actor idols. There need the appropriate action for the school, the parents, and our society to raise children who can help bring about a better society.
In sum, we not only make clear sense that how children are socialized today determines the destiny of society in the long run, but also take the measure and method to foster them appropriate and provide them hale and hearty both in physical and spiritual standards. That needs the efforts of parents, school and the whole society.
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Argument 51: The following appeared in a medical newsletter.
Doctors have long suspected that secondary infections may keep some patients from healing quickly after severe muscle strain. This hypothesis has now been proven by preliminary results of a study of two groups of patients. The first group of patients, all being treated for muscle injuries by Dr. Newland, a doctor who specializes in sports medicine, took antibiotics regularly throughout their treatment. Their recuperation time was, on average, 40 percent quicker than typically expected. Patients in the second group, all being treated by Dr. Alton, a general physician, were given sugar pills, although the patients believed they were taking antibiotics. Their average recuperation time was not significantly reduced. Therefore, all patients who are diagnosed with muscle stain would be well advised to take antibiotics as part of their treatment.
The argument makes the conclusion that secondary infection keep some patients from recovery soon after severe muscle strain, and then take antibiotics could improve. To corroborate it the argument cites a study of two groups of patients with different recuperation time under the two doctors’ treatment respectively. The argument is problematic in several respects.
The threshold problem with the argument is that the study does not provide any information about the patients under the treatment experiment, such as their age, gender and the basic health situation. Yet the much more important information about in which parts of body the patients have suffered the muscle strain is insufficiently provided, that would matter the recuperation time much. For example, a muscle strain in the wrist of hand or foot due to excessive exercise should take two weeks to recover, while the healing muscle strain of backache would take much more time. Without ruling other factors which matter to the recuperation, the arguer makes the study less reliable.
Secondly, even if assuming that the patients suffer the same muscle strain in the two groups, the experimental process is questionable. The patients took the antibiotics directed by Dr. Newland who is sports medicine expertise, while the patients took the sugar pill as antibiotics directed by Dr Alton who is a general physician. In their treatment, the two doctors may have different strategy to heal the patients. It is possible that Dr. Newland is good at using medicine with other auxiliary massage, which render the recuperation time of his patients is quicker. In order to test the effect of antibiotic specifically, it should put the two groups under the same doctor’s treatment with antibiotics and placebos respectively.
Thirdly, the argument make the assumption that the patients who are diagnosed with muscle strain should take antibiotics because the secondary infections after serve muscle strain. It is impossible conclude with any confidence without evidences to prove the secondary infection must happens after the serve muscle strain. Maybe the secondary infections occur differently from person to person according to their healthy situations.
In sum, the argument is wholly unpersuasive. To bolster it the author must provide more information about the two group patients and doctors’ treatment, and the evidence that the secondary infection highly occurs after severe muscle strain. Moreover, the arguer should make the experimental process more convincible by comparing the group taking antibiotics and the control group taking placebos under the same doctor’s treatment.
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