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Argument 145(People who snore should eat less and exercise more than average people)
This argument recommends that people who snore should eat less and exercise more than average people.To justify this recommendation,the speaker cites a new survey of people who snore are more likely to gain weight than are people who don’t snore.The speaker also point out that sleep apnea leaves people too tired to exercise owing to snoring .I find this argument logically unconvincing in the following aspects.
To begin with,the speaker commits a fallacy of overgeneralization in assuming that peolp who snore should eat less and exercise more .As the evidence that speaker provides people who sanore are more likely gains weight than people who don’t snore is unwarranted ,It is entirely possible that some of them who snore can’t gain weight or less likely gain weight than people who don’t snore.For that matter,perhaps it is easy for them to lose weight..In a word ,without considering other possibilities for the snoring people ,the assumption is unconvicing as it stands.
Secondly,even if the survey that indicates people who snore is more likely to gain weight than people who snore is persuasive .yet the evidence is too vague to indicate that people who snore should eat less and exercise more..Perhaps the snoring people can inhibit weight through treatment of eradicating snoring, or change the postures in bed.Failing to take into account the other possibilities that control the weight ,the speaker can’t convince us .
Thirdly, the speaker commits a fallacy of begging the question in assuming that people who snore should eat less and exercise more than people who don’t snore.The speaker’assumption depends on the well-known fact that sleep apean can contribute to weaking briefly and further makes people too tired during the day to exercise.Lacking the evidence to support that unnotinced waking in
the night causes tiredness in the day,perhaps it is so brief that people can’t feel tired , Thus,the speaker can’t conclude that snoring pople should eat less and exercise more.On the other hand during the assumption ,the speaker reverses the causality between gaining weight and tireness- that is on the tireness leads to the gaining weight rather than the latter is attribute to the former..It mkes us vague to the logic of argument.
In sum ,the argument is unconvincing as it stands .To strengthen it the spesker must show that the proportion of people who snore can gain weight .To better assess the argument I would need more information illustrating the relation between exercise diet as well as weight..Also I need the speaker pay attention to the causality .
ISSUE< 222=3>It is more important to allocate money for immediate.existing social problem than to spend it on long –term research that might help tuture generations.
There is much debate over which is more important to allocate money between socail problem and long-term research .Some people maitain that it is necessary to allocate money for immediate problems in sense that they are directly related to us while others argue that long-term research should be placed enough emphasises on for the reason is that they can produce a lasting significance on the future.However,in my opinion, the distributiion of funds should changes r as the environment does.
Undoubtedly, sometimes. it is sensible to deal with the immediate existing problems such as unemployment,drug abuse,AIDS and so forth .On the one sense these problems are neart to our lives and have a great effect on us.Anyone that ingores such problems would pay a coast. For example, during the 1970s in the UK the economy developed with high in flation and low growth,.Big private companies started to go bankrupt.Consequently, unemployment went up quickly from 1 million to 3.5million .Nevertheless prime minister Margaret took into account the high rate of unemployment without adding the welfare further carried on a new tax-“Poll Tax” which lead to Mrs Thatcher ‘downfall.To keep the high popularity the Conservative abandoned the new tax and elected a new leader –John Major .Thereby ,the immediate existing social problem should place at the first position .
On the other sense ,the solution for immediate existing social problem seriously limits the horizon of government at all levels of development and causes unbalanced ,bad –rounded economy.Today it is easy for us to notice some countries at the first phase distributes a large amount of funds to promote the economy at the expense of environment as a result they paid a great coast. There is no denying that human beings weigh the long-term research if anything we would benefit from it.
Moreoverlong-term research can influence on the futuregenration in many ways .It is known to us that no field can have a more lasting effect on the young generation than education ,In retropect America emphasizes the relation between education and citizenship as a means of transmiting democratic values ,creating equality of opportunity and preparing new generationof citizen to function in society.When the Soviet Union launched the first orbiting satellite ,American government concerned with the education by offering a grant to on science and mathematics so that until today America can’t fall behind the other counties as well as American students are in a more favourable position in the scientific and technological capabilities .Therefore, it is important to allocate money to the long-ternm research.
Admittedly,under some circumstances concerns with long-ternm researches can contribute to losing present dominance in that noboddy can predict what happed in the future.I t is an unknown number.As for some researches that are out of date,we shoud’t invest money on it.
In sum ,as far as I am concerned immediate problems and long-ternm researches are on the same level ,if properly handled they can reconcile with each other. |
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