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bowleyjoo
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The following appeared in a letter to the editor of a local newspaper:
“Our city council’s neglect of the impoverished Railroad Flats neighborhood has left businesses with little incentive to locate there. Building a new professional football stadium in the neighborhood would solve this problem. Thousands of football fans would travel to the area to see games, and they would buy from local merchants, encouraging new
businesses to open. So our city council should move quickly to fund the construction of a professional football stadium in Railroad Flats in order to help the neighborhood develop a thriving economy.”
The author concludes that the city council can stimulate the prolific economy in the impoverished Railroad Flats neighborhood by rapidly building the new football stadium in the neighborhood. To substantiate this conclusion, the author points out that the football stadium will not only attract a large number of football fans who are the prospective customers of local merchants, but also will induce new businesses to the area. This argument, however, fails to be persuasive for the author's several questionable assumptions.
Most conspicuously, the author concerns with only amusement and attracting place as a single step change in poor neighborhood condition issue, yet ignores many relevant factors. The status of any area is determined by the whole bunch of the neighborhood, such as weather, crime rate, unemployment rate, education, and so on. Sometimes, local culture also plays an important roles. We can reasonably assume that Railroad Flats neighborhood actually experiences many kinds of problems. The reasons can be various. Hence, only one adjustment by adding new football stadium without considering other influential factors is incomplete.
Also, the author's line of reasoning is based on the flawed assumption that that the new football stadium is certainly successful to induce thousands of people to the area. In fact, this is a dubious claim. Other reasons may distract people from visiting Railroad Flats neighborhood. For instance, there are many sport stadiums in the close incinity to Railroad Flats. Moreover, a novel and modern amusement park just opened in the nearby city. This means the new football stadium has to be so competitive that can attain to attract people from other places. However, the author does not attempt to buttress this point at all. Therefore, if this is the case, then the expectation of large number of participants in the football stadium is entirely unfounded.
Finally, even if the football stadiums can induce many football fans, it is senseless to assume that this group of people are interested in products of local merchants. This statement is not necessarily valid. The football fans may neglect the products in Railroad Flats because those products are similar to those of their cities. The new businesses, consequently, would not be interested in Railroad Flats neighborhood, and thus the current issue of little incentive still cannot be solved.
In summary, this argument is unwarranted. To strengthen the argument, the author would have to provide additional corroborates that only constructing the football stadiums is sufficient to solve the poverty issue in Railroad Flats neighborhood. Furthermore, the author has to guarantee that no other sport stadium or other entertaining facilities can deviate people from the new football stadium in Railroad Flats neighborhood. Most importantly, the supporting information which can prove that the new businesses will be interested in the area after the neighborhood becomes crowded should also be given. Without such evidences mentioned above, this argument remains logically unconvincing, and fails to persuade the readers.
“Our city council’s neglect of the impoverished Railroad Flats neighborhood has left businesses with little incentive to locate there. Building a new professional football stadium in the neighborhood would solve this problem. Thousands of football fans would travel to the area to see games, and they would buy from local merchants, encouraging new
businesses to open. So our city council should move quickly to fund the construction of a professional football stadium in Railroad Flats in order to help the neighborhood develop a thriving economy.”
The author concludes that the city council can stimulate the prolific economy in the impoverished Railroad Flats neighborhood by rapidly building the new football stadium in the neighborhood. To substantiate this conclusion, the author points out that the football stadium will not only attract a large number of football fans who are the prospective customers of local merchants, but also will induce new businesses to the area. This argument, however, fails to be persuasive for the author's several questionable assumptions.
Most conspicuously, the author concerns with only amusement and attracting place as a single step change in poor neighborhood condition issue, yet ignores many relevant factors. The status of any area is determined by the whole bunch of the neighborhood, such as weather, crime rate, unemployment rate, education, and so on. Sometimes, local culture also plays an important roles. We can reasonably assume that Railroad Flats neighborhood actually experiences many kinds of problems. The reasons can be various. Hence, only one adjustment by adding new football stadium without considering other influential factors is incomplete.
Also, the author's line of reasoning is based on the flawed assumption that that the new football stadium is certainly successful to induce thousands of people to the area. In fact, this is a dubious claim. Other reasons may distract people from visiting Railroad Flats neighborhood. For instance, there are many sport stadiums in the close incinity to Railroad Flats. Moreover, a novel and modern amusement park just opened in the nearby city. This means the new football stadium has to be so competitive that can attain to attract people from other places. However, the author does not attempt to buttress this point at all. Therefore, if this is the case, then the expectation of large number of participants in the football stadium is entirely unfounded.
Finally, even if the football stadiums can induce many football fans, it is senseless to assume that this group of people are interested in products of local merchants. This statement is not necessarily valid. The football fans may neglect the products in Railroad Flats because those products are similar to those of their cities. The new businesses, consequently, would not be interested in Railroad Flats neighborhood, and thus the current issue of little incentive still cannot be solved.
In summary, this argument is unwarranted. To strengthen the argument, the author would have to provide additional corroborates that only constructing the football stadiums is sufficient to solve the poverty issue in Railroad Flats neighborhood. Furthermore, the author has to guarantee that no other sport stadium or other entertaining facilities can deviate people from the new football stadium in Railroad Flats neighborhood. Most importantly, the supporting information which can prove that the new businesses will be interested in the area after the neighborhood becomes crowded should also be given. Without such evidences mentioned above, this argument remains logically unconvincing, and fails to persuade the readers.
