QUESTION TYPE: Flawed Reasoning
CONCLUSION: Donations to charity are only rarely signs of permanent virtue.
REASONING: Those who donate generally do so only intermittently (occasionally).
ANALYSIS: The argument assumes that generosity ceases whenever people are not actively making donations. Even the most generous person in the world ceases to be generous when they are asleep, according to that logic. It’s a silly argument.
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- No. The argument does not make any claims about who is the most virtuous.
- There aren’t any ad hominem attacks here.
- CORRECT. Yes. They are assuming that we are generous only when we are actively committing an act of generosity. This is an odd assumption.
- For there to be a sample size error, we would need to know the number of people being discussed. Here the columnist is discussing people in general.
- The columnist does not say how often donations show generosity. (“Donating items to charity may be a sign of generosity”).
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