Azadeh: Support The recent increase in the amount of organically produced food indicates that consumers are taking a greater interest in the environment. █████ █████ ██ ███ ████ ███ █ █████████ ███████
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People these days are consuming more organic foods – but why? Azadeh thinks it’s because they care more about the environment than they used to. Ben thinks they’re motivated only by their own health concerns (and therefore not by anything else, including a new-founded interest in the environment).
This area of disagreement is reasonable to anticipate – you should aspire to roll into the answer choices looking for something like:
[Azadeh and Ben disagree about whether] people are motivated by health concerns or environmental concerns when choosing organic produce.
Azadeh's and Ben's statements provide ███ ████ ███████ ███ ███████ ████ ████ ████████ █████ ███████
it is likely ████ █ ███████ ██████ ███ ██ ██████████ ██ ████ ██████ ████████ ██ █████ ███████ ██████ ██████
Azadeh: ❓Ben: ❓
Ben is cleanly silent on this point, not having mentioned planet health at all. Azadeh, despite probably disagreeing with this point, is actually silent as well for relative v. absolute reasons: she thinks people being interested in the environment will make the planet healthier (that’s a relative claim), but that doesn’t mean she thinks the planet is currently healthy (that’s an absolute claim).
people can become █████████ ██ ██████████ █████ ███████████ ██ ███████ █████
Azadeh: ❓Ben: ❓
Azadeh is cleanly silent on this claim, not having mentioned people’s health at all. Ben, despite probably agreeing with this point, is actually silent as well for mental state v. reality reasons. Ben believes that people think organic food is healthier for them, which is different from believing that organic food is in fact healthier. That is, perhaps Ben thinks people are mistaken about organic food.
people ought to ██ ████ █████████ █████ ███ ███████████ ████ ████ █████████ ███
Azadeh: ✅Ben: ❓
Azadeh probably agrees with this claim, since we have indications that she’s on team healthier-planet. Ben is silent on this claim for value judgment reasons – he discusses what people’s motivations are, but never discusses what they ought to be.
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Azadeh: ✅Ben: ❌
Azadeh agrees with this claim, having stated it near-verbatim. Ben disagrees with this claim: in his eyes, these people are motivated only (that’s a key word here – ONLY!) by worries about their own health, not by anything else.
people can be █████████ ██ ████ █ ███████ ███████ ███ ███ ███████████ ████ ████ ███ ████
Azadeh: ❓Ben: ❓
Both Azadeh and Ben are silent on the concept of persuasion – nowhere in either of their statements do we have people changing their minds because they are presented with arguments. In Ben’s statement, no one changes their minds at all. In Azadeh’s people have changed their minds on the environment, but we’re never told why or how that happened.
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