Dawes,
Massachusetts is a mid-size city just north of Boston along the route most
traffic from Boston's northern suburbs takes to reach Logan Airport. The city
is run by a Mayor and a six-member city council; each councilor is elected from
a particular geographic district.
You've now been retained by Ercellini to publish tweets responding to critiques by his opponents. Your client insists on two rules:
City Councilor
Steve Ercellini is facing a tough re-election campaign. His challenger is Jaleel Bianco, a twenty-four-year old who moved to
Dawes when he was starting ninth grade. He attended college at MIT,
living on-campus (which is 20 minutes from Dawes) and graduated with honors
with a B.S in Urban Science and a minor in Environmental Science.
Councilor Ercellini
represents a district in which a multinational grocery store chain (Food! Food!
Food! or "Triple F") has agreed to buy the land on which a car
dealership (Revere Chrysler) has operated for more than thirty years.
Revere Chrysler occupies more than four acres of land abutting a residential
area, a small commercial strip featuring mom & pop businesses, a gas
station, a garage for state highway vehicles (especially plows and salt and
sand), a competing grocery store and an interchange connecting to two primary
highways.
Councilor
Ercellini met with his constituents to discuss Triple F's plans; 30 homes
border the Revere Chrysler property and 92 are on the road that would see the
greatest traffic increase from the new grocery store. He explained to them that
the local zoning code allows for the store to be built. The only leverage
the City of Dawes has over the project is delaying its review of a driveway
permit the store would need and its approval of the building permit for the
store. Ercellini cautioned the neighbors that Triple F could force the
City to pay its legal fees if it has to sue to have the driveway permit and
building permit issued. The neighbors were adamant that they wanted him
to fight the project at all costs because the store would destroy their
neighborhood.
After the
meeting, Ercellini tweeted: "Calling upon all Dawes officials to
join me in protecting my constituents' neighborhood around Revere Chrysler and
opposing Triple F's grossly disproportionate building plans."
In response,
candidate Jaleel Bianco tweeted: "SAY IT AIN'T SO, COUNCILOR ERCELLINI!
Giving false hope to your constituents. Why not honestly explain that
Triple F has won approvals and legal fees in court all three times our cities
have delayed permits."
You've now been retained by Ercellini to publish tweets responding to critiques by his opponents. Your client insists on two rules:
(1) All responses must be published
within four minutes of when any attack is published and
(2) All tweets must be truthful.
Publish your
first response below by making a SLIPPERY SLOPE argument.
DEFINITION OF SLIPPERY SLOPE ARGUMENT:
ReplyDeleteIn a slippery slope argument, a course of action is rejected because, with little or no evidence, one insists that it will lead to a chain reaction resulting in an undesirable end or ends. The slippery slope involves an acceptance of a succession of events without direct evidence that this course of events will happen. [Texas State University Dept of Philosophy resources website: https://www.txstate.edu/philosophy/resources/fallacy-definitions/Slippery-Slope.html]
Right now it's just one grocery store, but before you know it, they could kill local business and bulldoze your homes.
ReplyDeleteTraffic congestion with the new supermarket with the increase of pedestrian/auto accidents, resulting in blood in the streets and lead to money flowing out of our pockets.
ReplyDeleteThe addition of the store to the neighborhood is going to add a lot more traffic to the area. This will endanger children waiting for their school buses, playing in their yards and result in traffic accidents and most likely the death of many children.
ReplyDeleteAll the Mom and Pop stores are going to die in a bloody death at the hands of corporate greed.
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