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CT 3 Complex Arguments (3.2 Fallacies of Relevance (Appeal to Force …

- - - - governments should bail out banks on the verge of collapse
        
        if banks go bancrupts, savers will loose their money
        
        other banks will go under as well
        
        devaluation of people's investments
        
        bankrucptcies cause the value of stocks to decline
        
        bailing out banks protects saving
        
        the government has a duty to protect its citizens' savings
        
        the citizens have an interest to protect their savings
        
        the government should protect the interests of its citizens
    - - Just after the Second World War, Germans adopted cigarettes as a form of currency. This is an excellent form of money; it is almost impossible to forge. It is also very convenient, as it comes in clear denominations of a cigarette, a packet, and a carton. Money that comes in such denominations is easy to count. Most importantly, it has an in-built tendency to self-regulate its value. If the supply of cigarettes increases, making them worth less, the holders of the currency have a tendency to smoke them. This reduces supply, and restores their value; all in accordance with the general law of supply and demand.
        
        cigarettes is an excellent form of money
        
        almost impossible to forge
        
        very convenient
        
        easy to count
        
        cigarettes come in clear denominations
        
        (imp)
        sth in clear denomination is easy to count
        
        (imp)
        how easy to count sth is, makes its convenience of a form of money
        
        build in tendency to regulate its value
        
        If the supply of cigarettes increases, making them worth less, the holders of the currency have a tendency to smoke them. This reduces supply, and restores their value
        
        (imp)
        hard forgeability is a desirable characteristic of money
    - - Contention:
        primary school teachers should be paid better than university lecturers.
        
        More important jobs should be paid better
        
        College Lecturers are already overpaid
        
        A primary school teacher's job is more important than a university lecturer's job.
        
        The importance of a job is determined by the contribution it makes to society
        
        primary school teachers contribute more to society
        
        The contribution of a teaching job is determined by how much basic skills the students learn.
        
        primary school teachers teach more basic skills
        
        primary school teachers teach during students more formative years
        
        Students learn more basic skills during their more formative years.
        
        university lecturer's don't teach basic skills
        
        students at university already have basic skills
        
        primary school teacher teach basic skills
  - - - 1A Abortion must remain legal because women decide about their own bodies.
        1B A woman has no right to absolute control over her body if the life of another human being is at stake.
    - - 2A This migraine attack must have been caused by stress, as I have been very busy at work lately.
        2B How could you be stressed? All you have to do is sit in your chair all day.
    - - 3A Sue pretended she was not meeting Tom any more, but they secretly kept seeing each other, so she was deceiving her parents.
        3B Deception means lying. Leaving out certain information is not the same as lying.