Mrs. Wumi Abdul needs help with two issues (1) should she allow her schools to restrict what the students bring in their home lunch? and (2) should she, instead of forming a government, abolish government for her island?
A) For all the following arguments: (a) Identify the premises and conclusion (shortcut method is OK); (b) construct a diagram;
B) For 4 of them (c) evaluate (and justify your evaluations) for (i) premise acceptability, (ii) relevance, and (iii) sufficiency, (iv) burden of proof; (d) identify any fallacies.
C) Choose one of the issues and, in premise-conclusion form, construct your own argument for what Mrs. Wumi Abdul should do.
School Lunch: Let Them Eat Cake!
1. Schools should be able to restrict what types of foods are in children's lunches. Children will have more energy, pay better attention in class, and grow up healthier if they eat right. Permitting a child to subsist on a diet of twinkies and soda can only harm their development. Schools, who are responsible for the well-being of the children within their walls, should not allow them to make unhealthy choices that will harm their development and haunt them throughout the rest of their lives. 2. "Nutrition wise, it is better for the children to eat at the school," Carmona said. "It's about the nutrition and the excellent quality food that they are able to serve (in the lunchroom). It's milk versus a Coke. But with allergies and any medical issue, of course, we would make an exception."
3. At Little Village, most students must take the meals served in the cafeteria or go hungry or both. During a recent visit to the school, dozens of students took the lunch but threw most of it in the garbage uneaten. Though CPS has improved the nutritional quality of its meals this year, it also has seen a drop-off in meal participation among students, many of whom say the food tastes bad. Therefore, we should allow kids to bring whatever food they want.
Government: Yeah or Nay?
4. Governments should be abolished. By definition, government spits in the face of the non-aggression principle. The taxation that feeds government is done with the use of implicit death threats against citizens: If you don't pay us, we're going to come to your house and put the cuffs on you. If you resist and attempt to escape, we're going to immobilize you. If you resist being immobilized, we're going to shoot you, a crime that must be outlawed when the common citizen is concerned.
5. The so-called social contract of Statism HAS NEVER BEEN SIGNED BY ANYBODY. Statism condemns all individuals unlucky enough to be born inside one of its countries to risk being constrained to stay, endure the inflation of the money supply which has nothing to do with them, comply to invasive policies, and see their chance of creating an independent community dramatically reduced, especially if the entire world is a tax farm. Therefore, we should abolish government.
6. The involuntary nature of the relationship removes from the State the right to order anything from us. It affects every part of your life in the process, reducing your happiness and life expectancy. It's clear, governments should be abolished. Also, it's been a violent, highly manipulative gang of sociopaths for quite a while by now.
7. We need government. Opponents of government overlook the benefits of government, although those benefits are manifest even in the text of his argument: public schools, for example, are institutions of government; the Internet is an institution created, defined, regulated, and protected by the government.
8. To decide whether we should or should not have a government, apply the following test: Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen, and ask yourself if the position you contemplate is going to be of any use to him. Will he gain anything by it? Will it restore him to a control over his own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj [freedom] for the hungry and spiritually starving millions?" If the answer is "no", then we must have government.
4. Governments should be abolished. By definition, government spits in the face of the non-aggression principle. The taxation that feeds government is done with the use of implicit death threats against citizens: If you don't pay us, we're going to come to your house and put the cuffs on you. If you resist and attempt to escape, we're going to immobilize you. If you resist being immobilized, we're going to shoot you, a crime that must be outlawed when the common citizen is concerned.
5. The so-called social contract of Statism HAS NEVER BEEN SIGNED BY ANYBODY. Statism condemns all individuals unlucky enough to be born inside one of its countries to risk being constrained to stay, endure the inflation of the money supply which has nothing to do with them, comply to invasive policies, and see their chance of creating an independent community dramatically reduced, especially if the entire world is a tax farm. Therefore, we should abolish government.
6. The involuntary nature of the relationship removes from the State the right to order anything from us. It affects every part of your life in the process, reducing your happiness and life expectancy. It's clear, governments should be abolished. Also, it's been a violent, highly manipulative gang of sociopaths for quite a while by now.
7. We need government. Opponents of government overlook the benefits of government, although those benefits are manifest even in the text of his argument: public schools, for example, are institutions of government; the Internet is an institution created, defined, regulated, and protected by the government.
8. To decide whether we should or should not have a government, apply the following test: Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen, and ask yourself if the position you contemplate is going to be of any use to him. Will he gain anything by it? Will it restore him to a control over his own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj [freedom] for the hungry and spiritually starving millions?" If the answer is "no", then we must have government.
No comments:
Post a Comment