Does the following passage contain an argument? “Man tends…
Does the following passage contain an argument? “Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence; consequently he is occasionally subject to a severe struggle for existence.” -Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man
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Standardize the argument contained in the following passage according to Govier’s strategies for standardizing arguments, adding, if necessary, implicit premises and conclusion. To the best of your ability, evaluate the argument using the ARG conditions, justifying your answers fully and following Govier’s guidelines for determining whether the argument is cogent. Suppose aliens came to earth from outer space and put us in cages and started to experiment with us, deliberately contaminating us with painful diseases to find out how soon we would die. We would complain and think they had done us a terrible wrong. Yet we do exactly this to animals less powerful than ourselves, telling ourselves that because these animals are less than human beings, what we do is all right? It’s not. The very same argument applies to both cases.
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