QUESTION TEXT: Garbage dumps do not harm wildlife….
QUESTION TYPE: Weaken – Exception
CONCLUSION: Garbage dumps don’t hurt any animals.
REASONING: Baboons that eat garbage grow faster and have more children than baboons that don’t.
ANALYSIS: This is a bad argument. It makes a claim about all animals but only provides evidence about baboons.
Further, the fact that baboons grow and reproduce faster doesn’t mean they’re healthier.
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- This explains a lot. It isn’t necessarily the garbage that makes the baboons grow faster: it could be a natural difference between the species.
- Yikes. Baboons reproduce more, but they die young. That’s not so good.
- That doesn’t sound healthy for those baboons.
- CORRECT. So? We have no idea why there are more hyenas. It might not have anything to do with garbage.
- That’s not healthy for the baboons. More births aren’t so great if more of the births are also defective.
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