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Rossi: Support It is undemocratic for people to live under a government in which their interests are not represented. ██ ████████ ██████ ████ ███ █████ ██ █████ █████ █████████ ███ █████████ ██ ████████ ███ █████████ ████ █████ ██ █████ ████████
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Summary
Rossi asserts that children should get the right to vote, since it’s undemocratic for people to live under a government that doesn’t represent their interests, and children’s interests are sometimes different from the interests of their parents. Smith acknowledges that children and parents can have different interests. But he concludes that we shouldn’t give children the right to vote, because their conception about what the government can or should do is too simple, and because their timeline for being affected by the government is very different from that timeline for adults.
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This describes Rossi's response He starts from a general principle, that it is undemocratic for people to live under a government that does not represent their interests, and applies it to children.
b
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Rossi does not attack anyone's good faith. He simply argues for letting children vote and makes no claim about an opponent's honesty or motives.
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Rossi does not weigh the consequences of letting children vote. His argument is based on a principle, not on predicting what would happen if children could vote. Evaluating consequences is closer to Smith's approach, not Rossi's.
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Rossi does give a rationale, the democratic principle, rather than merely describing things. He offers a reason for the policy of letting children vote, so this does not fit.
e
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Rossi does not use any term in two different senses. There is no shift in meaning, in "interests" or anything else, that his argument relies on. This describes equivocation, which Rossi does not commit.