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Essay about Argument and Natural Selection

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1. “I like the rain. Some people will tell you that the sun is the best, but they are wrong. What waits for you in the sun? Skin cancer. What waits for you in the rain? Puddles to jump in. I’ll take puddles over cancer any day.” Tell me as much as you can about this passage as an argument (especially the parts). p1. Sun will bring skin cancer. p2. Rain will bring puddles that we can jump. p3: Pain is bad, joy is good. If a thing causes more good things than bad things, then it is better. p4: If A is better than B, then we should like A. p5. Puddles are better than skin cancer because it creates more joy than pain.
Conclusion: I like rain better.

2. Find an argument from an external source (make sure to tell me where it is from). …show more content…

Its strengths are that it allows me to pursuit my goal selfishly without worrying about others, and it allows me to provide a simple theory for many phenomena in the world. Its weaknesses are that I care too much about my wants and needs without considering others' needs and wants, and the model ignores other fundamental motives like parental cares, self-esteem, belonging, and etc.

4. Tell me about a model that you have not internalized. What are its strengths/weaknesses?
A model that I have not internalized is the belief that a person should find their own love instead of obeying his or her parents' arrangement. A strength of this model is that people can follow their dreams and have freedom. A weakness of this model is that people are usually driven by their sexual drives while ignoring many important factors when it comes to marriage (personality, family background and etc.). Parents often have more experiences and thus are more objective when choosing a mate.

5. Tell me about a way that people around you have influenced your thinking for the better.
When I discuss something of which I am certain with people who held different opinions, they sometime provides counter examples or reasons that I haven't thought of, which makes me reconsider my thoughts more closely.

6. Tell me about a way that people around you have influenced your thinking for the worse.
When I discuss something that I am

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