Attention Philosophers of 414!
Remember! Making SENSE of an argument and SEEING what's wrong or right with it takes TIME! STARE at your arguments, identify the CONCLUSION, THINK about how the various premises fit and link together to FLOW to the conclusion. I asked you to examine the following argument and think about what's problematic with it. Use this space to write down what you identify as the flaws in this argument!
"When prisoners under sentence of death are given the choice between life in prison and execution, 99% of them choose life imprisonment.
This shows that they fear death more than they fear life imprisonment.
Since one is most deterred by what one most fears,
it is evident that the threat of the death penalty is more likely to deter most potential murderers than is the threat of life imprisonment."
What say you? What's wrong here?
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