Argument99 [Shining Sep]

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ARGUMENT99 - The following appeared in a memo from the economic minister of the small country Paucia.

"Using a newly developed variety of seed, farmers in our neighboring country Abundia produced 80 percent more rice last year than in any previous year. To increase the income of farmers in our own country, we should encourage them to cultivate this new variety of rice rather than some of their traditional crops. Such high yields of rice will also improve our country's balance of trade by enabling us to begin exporting it."
WORDS: 425          TIME: 0:30:00          DATE: 2006-8-22

In this argument, the economic minister of the small country Paucia (P) claims that the country should encourage their farmer to cultivate a new variety of rice rather than some of their traditional crops by citing the achievement of country Abundia (A) who use the new rice and the anticipated result of using the seed. However, this argument suffers from several logical flaws which prevent it from convincing.

To begin with, the minister fails to establish a cause-and-effect relationship between the 80 percent more rice production of country A in last year and using the newly developed seed. Only offering the statistics of one year lends little to support the arguer's conclusion. Perhaps the weather of A is milder in the last year, which helps to increase the amount of rice production. Or perhaps the farmers of A have been introduced an improved technology or more efficient machines to produce the rice. Without considering and ruling out these possibilities, the arguer cannot convince me that the increased rice production is due to the using of new seed.

Second, even if the developed variety of seed truly increases the rice production of A, no evidence shows that it can also contribute to the agriculture production effectively in P. The arguer neglects the possible differences between the A and P. Perhaps A has abundant average amount of rainfall every year, while P is near the desert in which the rice cannot be grew. Or perhaps the earth of P is not suitable to plant the rice. If so, the arguer's advice amounts to a poor one.

Third, even assuming that P is also appropriate to plant the rice, no one can ensure that the rice production can receive a high yields and be exposed to the foreign countries. The arguer fails to consider that the rice may be not popular with the other countries, in which the people are not used to eat the rice. Moreover, if the quality of the rice is not so satisfactory, it also may not be accepted by the other countries. In this event, the high amount of rice production has little possibility to be purchased by the foreign countries--let alone improve the country's balance of trade.

In sum, the argument is untenable as it stands. To strengthen it, the arguer should prove that the achievement of A is due to using the new seeds and the new plant can also has high yields in P. To better assess this argument, I need the information of the exporting situation of P.

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ARGUMENT99 - The following appeared in a memo from the economic minister of the small country Paucia.

"Using a newly developed variety of seed, farmers in our neighboring country Abundia produced 80 percent more rice last year than in any previous year. To increase the income of farmers in our own country, we should encourage them to cultivate this new variety of rice rather than some of their traditional crops. Such high yields of rice will also improve our country's balance of trade by enabling us to begin exporting it."
WORDS: 425          TIME: 0:30:00          DATE: 2006-8-22

In this argument, the economic minister of the small country Paucia (P) claims that the country should encourage their farmer to cultivate a new variety of rice rather than some of their traditional crops by citing the achievement of country Abundia (A) who use the new rice and the anticipated result of using the seed. However, this argument suffers from several logical flaws which prevent it from convincing.

To begin with, the minister fails to establish a cause-and-effect relationship between the 80 percent more rice production of country A in last year and using the newly developed seed. Only offering the statistics of one year lends little to support the arguer's conclusion. Perhaps the weather of A is milder in the last year, which helps to increase the amount of rice production. Or perhaps the farmers of A have been introduced an improved technology or more efficient machines to produce the rice. Without considering and ruling out these possibilities, the arguer cannot convince me that the increased rice production is due to the using of new seed.

Second, even if the developed variety of seed truly increases the rice production of A, no evidence shows that it can also contribute to the agriculture production effectively in P. The arguer neglects the possible differences between the A and P. Perhaps A has abundant average amount of rainfall every year, while P is near the desert in which the rice cannot be grew. Or perhaps the earth of P is not suitable to plant the rice. If so, the arguer's advice amounts to a poor one.

Third, even assuming that P is also appropriate to plant the rice, no one can ensure that the rice production can receive a high yields and be exposed to the foreign countries. The arguer fails to consider that the rice may be not popular with the other countries, in which the people are not used to eat the rice. Moreover, if the quality of the rice is not so satisfactory, it also may not be accepted by the other countries. In this event, the high amount of rice production has little possibility to be purchased by the foreign countries--let alone improve the country's balance of trade.

In sum, the argument is untenable as it stands. To strengthen it, the arguer should prove that the achievement of A is due to using the new seeds and the new plant can also has high yields in P. To better assess this argument, I need the information of the exporting situation of P.
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