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The author concludes that the city council should adopt the mayor’s plan. This is based on the assertion that there are only two options: either the council adopts the mayor’s plan, or they do nothing. And, doing nothing isn’t a viable option.
The author presents a false dichotomy between adopting the mayor’s plan and doing nothing. Why can’t the city council do something else besides the mayor’s plan and nothing? Maybe there’s a different strategy that could be used. The author doesn’t provide any reason to think the city council’s options are limited to the two described.
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There’s nothing flawed about basing a projection only on conservative estimates. Conservative estimates are less extreme; if less conservative estimates were used, we have no reason to think that gridlock wouldn’t occur as quickly.
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The two options are mutually exclusive — doing nothing, by definition, cannot happen at the same time as adopting the mayor’s plan. So the author isn’t assuming the options are mutually exclusive.
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The author never made any predictions about what occurs after ten years. So this possibility isn’t something that undermines the author’s argument.
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The argument concerns how to accommodate projected increases in automobile traffic. The author never cited to economic concerns or reached a conclusion about economic concerns. So the failure to address the cost of traffic gridlock is irrelevant.
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The author presents only two choices — adopting the mayor’s plan or doing nothing. But there was no reason given for why these are the only two options. This presents a false dichotomy.
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