Self-study
Citizen: Support The primary factor determining a dog's disposition is not its breed, but its home environment. █ ███ █████ ███ ████ ███████████ ██ ███████ █████████ ███████████ ████████ ██ ████████ ██████ ██ ████ █████ ███ ███████ ███ ███████ ██ █████ ████████ ██ ███████ ███ ████████ ████████ ██ █ ███████ ████ ██████████████ ███████████ █████ █████ ███████████ ███████ ███ ██████ ████ ███████ █████ █████████ ██ ██ █████ ███ ███████ ████ ███ █████████ █████████
Summarize Argument: Counter-Position
Breed-specific legislation can’t protect the public from dogs. For support, the citizen illustrates that the primary cause of violence in dogs is environment (not breed), and claiming that such legislation will overlook this.
Identify Conclusion
The conclusion is a critique of legislating based on breed: “... such breed-specific legislation could never effectively protect the public from vicious dogs.”
6.
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a
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This is the main conclusion. The rest of the argument supports this by showing that breed-specific legislation doesn’t address the primary factor in determining disposition.
b
A good home ███████████ ██ ████ █████████ ████ ████████ ██ █ █████ ████████████
This is premise. (B) supports the conclusion that breed-specific legislation won’t be effective; it overlooks the most important factor.
c
The home environment ██ ████ █████ ███ ██ █████████ ██ ██████████████ ████████████
This is premise. (C) supports the conclusion that breed-specific legislation won’t be effective; it overlooks the most important factor.
d
Irresponsible dog owners ███ ███████ ██ █████████ ████ ████ ███ ████████████ ██████████ ██ ███████████ ██ ███████ █████████
This is premise. It illustrates that home environment is more important than breed in determining dog disposition.
e
The vicious-dog laws ████ ███ █████████ ██ ██████ ██ ███ ███████ ███ ███████ ██ █████ ████████ ██ ███████ ███ ████████ █████
All we know about current laws is that the citizen thinks they’re adequate; we don’t know what they address. If anything, there’s some support to say that, if the citizen thinks the law are adequate, the opposite of (E) is true.