"Seven years ago, homeowners in nearby Brookville community adopted a set of restrictions on how the community's yards should be landscaped and what colors the exteriors of homes should be painted. Since then, average property values have tripled in Brookville. In order to raise property values in Deerhaven Acres, we should adopt our own set of restrictions on landscaping and housepainting."
WORDS: 300 TIME: 0:30:00 DATE: 2006-10-17
The speaker asserts that the Deerhaven Arces community should adopt a set of restrictions on lanscaping and house painting, just because that the Brookville's average property values have tripled by adopting a set of restrictions on how the community's yards should be landscaped and what colors the exteriors of homes should be painted seven years ago. There are three mainly logical errors in this argument.
First of all, no evidence indicates that the fact that average property values in Brookville have tripled just necessary because the restriction of landscaping and house painting. It is possible that the average property values rising just for the design of the house in Brookville, and the living environment in Brookville. Without those information about Brookville, the arguer can not persuade us to believe that the raise of the average property values are just because the restrictions.
In the second place, the arguer commits a fallacy of hasty generalization, are the two communities comparable? It is possible that the location, the public services in Deerhaven community are better than Brookville, without those restrictions, the average property values can still raise. Unless the speaker provides more information about the two communities, it is unpersuasive to conclude that those restrictions are available to Deerhaven Acres community.
Last but no least, even assuming that the measures that Brookville taken are available, after 7 years, the situation of the market has greatly changed. Maybe the economy has declined, and the price of the estate bubble has collapsed. It is hard to conclude that Deerhaven Acres adopts the measures in different time, different place, the property values still raise.
In sum, Without further information about the two place, and the economy situation in this area, the arguer can not convince us that restrictions on landscaping and housepainting are still useful.