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Assignment:

Representing Arguments from Analogy in Standard Form

Instructions: represent each of the following arguments in standard form using the General Form of Argument from Analogy.

1. People should be allowed to do stupid and dangerous things like skydive if that's what they want to do. It's their right to take whatever risks they want. Similarly, with people who refuse to vaccinate themselves or their children. Jumping out of a plane and refusing vaccines-| personally think they are both pointless risks. But just as you should be allowed to skydive, you should be allowed to refuse vaccines for yourself or your kids.

2. Clearly, it's wrong to drive a gas-guzzling car. After all, driving a gas-guzzling car is, morally speaking, no different than driving drunk: in both cases you put yourself and others at increased risk of harm (in the former by contributing to global warming and the latter by increased risk of causing traffic accidents) merely for your own pleasure. Therefore, since drunk driving is wrong, driving a gas-guzzling car is, too.

3. It would clearly be unjust if a society failed to provide women with the same educational opportunities it provides to men. Women should have the same chance to secure the kinds of skills and credentials that will help them succeed in their lives and careers. But if failing to educate women is unjust, then it is also unjust for a society to fail to ensure that women have access to birth control. If the former unfairly and unnecessarily denies women control and opportunity in important aspects of their work and social life, then so does the latter.

4. Suppose there were a suburban dentist with an odd Hobby: he likes to capture stray dogs, then torture and kill them in his basement. He likes to take pictures of himself with their bloody bodies and display those pictures in his home. It makes him feel like a big man. Some rich people pay large amounts of money to hunt lions in Zimbabwe and other African countries. Even in countries where such trophy hunting is legal, it is morally wrong. Trophy hunters are morally no different than the cruel suburban dentist: both practices cause suffering and death to animals for sick entertainment.

5. Clearly, a vegetarian cafe owner has a right to refuse to serve meat without being punished or fined. An owner of a private hospital refusing to prescribe or dispense birth control is relevantly similar: both are refusing to offer a service they have moral objections to. So, the owner of the private hospital has a right to refuse to prescribe or dispense birth control without being puni shed or fined by the state.