Voting during Covid-19 pandemic.
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Original Question
Person 1 shares a meme: "We the people vote "NO" to vote by mail!! This should be re-shared enough to go viral."
Person 2 replies: "Why"
Person 1 replies: "So we have a valid count- we learned that in 6th grade."
Person 3 replies: "Yeah, If you can walk around Costco , Walmart and the beach you can walk into a precinct to vote!"
Answers
3Looks like opinion based on rhetoric. I've done postal votes for years. Isn't it time a country with so many resources dragged itself out of the 18th century?
Some type of sunk cost fallacy: you risked your life for non-essentials (like going to the beach). Then you should risk it for things that do matter.
Response: risk assessment should be valued.
Two Wrongs Make a Right (modified): risking life is ok because you've done it before.
Response: I know I did wrong by going to the beach, but doing the same thing even for important things should be reconsidered.
Ad Hominem (Abusive): We learned how to count correctly in 6th grade and you didn't even think of that. Then I'm right.
Response: I never understood personal attacks. Why add them? I guess they work in rhetoric or something. Don't care much for that. It feels wrong.
Weak Analogy by P3.
The reason is because Costco, Walmart and the beach can implement social distancing a lot easier, simply because there is no permanent queue, and the size of the establishments means a lot of people will be spread out anyway. In the line to vote, you have a bunch of people in roughly the same place, waiting there for a long-ass time.
Another reason is because Costco, Walmart and, yes - even the beach - aren't as urgent as voting. They will always be there another time, and could be substituted for if they weren't. You cannot substitute voting since there's only one election day.
Weak Analogy, therefore invalid argument by P3. Also, P1 isn't making a great deal of sense either.
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