The following is a letter that recently appeared in the Oak City Gazette, a local newspaper.
“The primary function of the committee for a better Oak City is to advise the city government on how to make the best use of the city’s limited budget. However, at some of our recent meetings we failed to make important decisions because of the foolish objections raised by committee members who are not even residents of Oak City. People who work in Oak city but who live elsewhere cannot fully understand the business and politics of the city. After all, only Oak City residents pay city taxes and therefore only residents understand how that money could be best used to improve the city. We recommend then, that the committee for a better Oak City vote to restrict its membership to city residents only. We predict that, without the interference of non residents, the committee will be able to make Oak city a better place in which to live and work.
The author, in the argument provided states that in order to make Oak City a better place to live and work, the membership for the committee of Oak City to be restricted to the city residents only. The non residents must be excluded from the committee membership in order to avoid the interference in matters of the Oak city. On the first look, the arguments seems to be convincing but on further speculation it is found that it fails to provide certain basic information and due to such flaws and gaps in the argument, it is not logically convincing.
Firstly, it is stated that the committee was ...
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