About the ban
To promote better health, New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg attempted to this in 2012.
What is: implement a law banning large sodas?
Weak arguments that have unsound reasoning and/or an over-reliance of emotion are called this.
What are: logical fallacies?
If a rule or law is "put into action", or "carried out", it is said to be this concept vocabulary word.
What is implemented?
This is what the author believes about Mayor Michael Bloomberg's intentions in enacting the soda ban
What is: They are laudable (deserving praise), but not enough to dictate how much soda people should drink.
The authors of "Ban the Ban" and "Soda's a Problem, but..." both mention a ban of _______, that they both believed was an acceptable government-mandated restriction.
What is smoking in public places?
According to the author of "Ban the Ban," the ban on selling large sodas will have this (overgeneralization) affect.
What is: it will strip away our civil liberties?
This logical fallacy is a conclusion that overstates the facts.
What is: overgeneralization
This concept vocabulary word means "commands" or "orders"
What is mandates?
According to the author of "Soda's a Problem but," a judge stopped the new law from being implemented for these two reasons.
What are:
a) the contradictions or inconsistencies of the proposed ban, and
b) the proposed ban was an overreach of the mayor's authority
Out of the three articles we've read about the soda ban, the author of this article believes that sometimes the government should create laws that keep people from harming themselves.
What is "Three Cheers for the Nanny State"
"Remember the days when New York was a really cool and fun place to live?" is an example of what kind of evidence?
What is: irrelevant evidence?
This logical fallacy says that if A happens, then X, Y, and Z will surely happen...so if you don't want Z to occur, you'd better prevent A from occurring too.
What is: slippery slope
This concept vocabulary word is something you might do if two friends were fighting and you wanted to stop them.
What is intervene?
The "inherent contradictions" or inconsistencies of the proposed ban were:
What is convenience stores overseen by the state would be exempt but restaurants would be restricted?
Based on your knowledge of the Latin prefix ex-, the definition of "exit" would be this.
What is to go out?
Some examples of the logical fallacies overgeneralization and slippery slope that the author of "Ban the Ban" uses are these:
*I do not respect having my civil liberties taken away
* "I personally feel that it goes against everything this country stands for"
*"Remember when New York was a really cool and fun place to live?"
*"...it won't be 'home of the free'...anymore"
*"...we are all going to wake up in the land of 'Big Brother'"
Using the slippery-slope fallacy, the author states that taking large sodas away is just the beginning, and that, eventually, the government will end up taking this away, as well.
What are: other freedoms, including the freedom of speech?
This concept vocabulary word literally means to be "left out" from having to follow a rule or law.
What is exemption?
The most important claim on which the argument in "Soda's a Problem but" is based is this.
What is: the mayor did not have the authority to enact a law to limit people's choices?
The word "excise" comes from the Latin root -cise- meaning "to cut." Using this information, along with your knowledge of the prefix ex-, the definition of "excise" would be this.
What is to cut out?
Of the two argumentative essays against the soda ban, this essay has more sound reasoning and relevant evidence.
What is: "Soda's a Problem but..."
Arguments that use logical fallacies, such as overgeneralization and slippery slope, rely too heavily on this to support their arguments.
What is: exciting readers' emotion
This concept vocabulary word means "purposes for" or "goals of" one's actions.
What is intentions?
The author of "Soda's a Problem but..." argued that people were not helpless, but were "simply ill-informed" and needed this to stop us from drinking too much soda.
What is to learn/be made aware/be given information?
This word describes how well you're going to do on this Selection Test tomorrow.
What is ____?