Fallacy - Ashwag Gashgari

Ashwag Gashgari.           

May 21, 2014.

Argument Letter

                In a letter to the editor, Robert Raywift, argues that people shouldn’t be allowed to park overnight from 2 a.m. to 6 a.m. because of number of reasons: the first reason he compares the parking in night as a garage, and since it is prohibited to build a garage in the street, so that’s should be with the parking. The second reason he represents that those parked cars make the traffic more slowly; therefore, it increases the consumption time of driving. Another significant reason that overnight parking hinders the factory workers who’s shift 6 a.m. Finally, he remarks too that overnight parking is a cause for some accidents.

                The first fallacy that I would like to discuss is the comparison between overnight parking and the garage,   the author states that overnight parking is like a garage, and because of the fact that building garages in the street is illegal; hence, overnight parking should be prohibited. This argument is false analogy because he comparing between things that have something in similar which is parking the car and garages, however, they totally different because parking is temporary while the garage it is self-property, and second those garages take larger spaces than cars.

                The second significant fallacy I would like to remark on it is when the author argues with accident escalating, the author states that the overnight parking raise the number of accidents between parked and moving cars in that period of time, and he support his argument by saying that intelligent locals would eliminate this issue. This argument “All intelligent citizens would regard the near elimination of accidents in any period as highly desirable.” Is poising the well fallacy, because he intimidates people that who didn’t support that consider to be non-intelligent.

                 The third considerable fallacy is when he mentions the experience which has been done by Burgers Jones, a chief police. The author explain that the chief put a sign in one of the street for one day prohibiting parking in the period of time in hand and then he mention that its was a successful day without any case better than the last year which face 400 accidents.  This argument is false clause argument because you can’t do an experiment for one day and considered it as a result , there other important thing to prove this experiments.

                Another remarkable fallacy when he mentions what the opponent’s claims that now is safer, and he refute them by saying that “these people don’t know what safe means. Conditions are not safe if there’s even the slightest possible chance for accidents. This argument is a straw man fallacy, due to the fact that attacks the opponent opinion and cut in their ability to recognize the safeness.

                Finally the last fallacy that I would mention is a begging question fallacy when the author finishes his letter by saying that “Both suggest that prohibiting parking from 2 a.m. to 6 a.m. is the best way to prevent overnight parking”.  Because he just saying the same meaning with other words.  (513 words)