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28 Jul 2023, 05:53
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gmatt1476
What's the gist of this question?
The proponent of the city's plan says that let's give 'paid' parking spots to shoppers so that they will get the support to do shopping in our neighborhood.
But Kayla says that this plan will backfire because people don't like to pay for parking spots.
Our goal is to attack Kayla and support the proponent of the city's plan.
Suppose there are two situations faced by the shoppers.
Situation one: lack of parking spaces.
Situation two: paying for parking spots.
A says that when a shopper encounters the above-mentioned situations, the shopper will hate the first situation even more.
Hence, the shopper may never come to our neighborhood to do shopping.
But the shopper may come to our neighborhood to do shopping if we make parking available.
Thus, it's best to provide the shoppers with at least some parking to support shopping in our neighborhood. Keep A.
B is gone because the shopper has to pay for the parking spot irrespective of the signs with street parking time limits.
C is eliminated because 'other neighborhoods' are irrelevant.
Shopping in our neighborhood and providing parking in our neighborhood is the scope of this argument .
Plus, the question doesn't give us any important information about the other neighborhoods that have or do not have parking spots.
D is gone because all it says is that the neighborhood has one paid parking lot.
The proponent of the city's plan wants more parking spots to support the shoppers to come to his neighborhood.
Do shoppers use this parking lot?
D doesn't give us any hint.
E is gone because it doesn't tell us whether shoppers shop in the nearby malls even though they provide free and unlimited parking.
Hence, A, if true, would be the most logically effective rebuttal a proponent of the city's plan could make to Kayla's objection.
I hope I'm crystal-clear 🙏
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02 Sep 2023, 17:40
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gmatt1476
Not convinced we can eliminate B as easily as everyone seems to be suggesting. Here's why:
K's argument: Street parking is scarce, so we don't have shoppers in this neighborhood
C's argument: That's why we are adding parking meters with time limits (nowhere is it mentioned that these are paid meters. these could just be meters that enforce towing, or call the shoppers on their phone when their time is up and one of the 100 other things)
K's argument: Oh shoppers don't like paying at shopping meters, so this plan won't work (she assumed that the meters are paid meters)
Option B correctly addresses this concern of hers: The city could post signs with street parking time limits, without forcing them to pay. Why are you assuming they are going to have to pay? What if the parking meters are nothing more than signposts with time limits?
Can someone help me eliminate this option logically?
(For what it's worth, I picked A because it just jumped at me as the right rebuttal and something I am likely to say lol - and probably because I read it first. But what I picked isn't relevant. Why I didn't pick B is more important, and I can't logically explain why. Maybe, just maybe I can argue parking meter in the sense we know it isn't a sign-post but that's like forcing my opinion/forcing the issue. It's not a "good" approach IMO)
KarishmaB what do you think?
04 Sep 2023, 00:22
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Saupayan
The meaning of 'parking meter' is an instrument in which you have to put money to park legally. The job of a parking meter is to collect money.
