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Support A number of Grandville's wealthiest citizens have been criminals. ███ █████ ██ ██ ██ ██████ ██████████ ████ ███ ██████████ ████████ █████████ ██ ████████ ██████ ██ ███████████ █████ ████████ █████████ ██ ██████ ███ ██████ █████████ ██ ███████ ██████ ██████ ██ █████████ ██ ████ ██████████
Summarize Argument
The author concludes that no wealthy person should be on the Grandville Planning Committee because some wealthy Grandville citizens have been criminals, and the committee must only include people with unquestionable personal ethics.
Identify and Describe Flaw
This is the cookie-cutter flaw of hasty generalization, where The author makes a broad generalization about an entire group based on evidence about only some members of that group. He assumes that, just because some wealthy Grandville citizens have been criminals, no wealthy person should be on the committee.
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a
confuses a result ████ █████████ ████ ██ ██████████ ███ ████████ █████ ████ ██████
The author simply doesn’t make this mistake. He never addresses the result of appointing wealthy people or criminals to the committee at all.
b
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The author doesn't do this. His argument doesn't address a temporal or a causal relationship between anything. That is, he doesn’t say what caused some wealthy people to be criminals or what might happen if they are appointed to the committee.
c
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Like (A), the author never addresses the results of appointing wealthy people or criminals to the committee at all. He also never mentions anyone’s intentions.
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The claim that some wealthy citizens are criminals is objective. However, the claims about who should be appointed to the committee are somewhat subjective; they can’t readily be evaluated objectively. So, the author doesn’t make this mistake.
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The author broadly generalizes about all wealthy Grandville citizens based on evidence about only some of them. Those wealthy Grandville citizens who are criminals could be exceptional cases; that is, there may be only a few of them.