Legislative priorities and the problem of petty vandalism
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03 May 2016, 07:00
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Legislative priorities and the problem of petty vandalism
The author of this editorial points out that in response to persons from area farmers and landowners, the legislature has spent valuable time and effort to enact severe laws to deter motorists from picking fruit, and trampling fields of regional growers. The author claims that these problems are trivial and thus do not meant the legislator’s valuable time. To support this claim, the author cites a current plague of crime and violence in this nation’s cities. At first glance, this argument might sound appealing; closer scrutiny, however, reveals numerous flaws that, considered together, completely undermine the argument.
To begin with, the argument relies on the unlikely assumption that the plague of crime and violence in cities also poses a problem in this legislature’s region. Based on the editorial, this reign largely appears in rural. And the author cannot reasonably rely merely on urban crime statistics t support his position.
Assuming for the moment that; this region is in fact plagued by urban type crime and violence, why shouldn’t the legislature also address other, less serious problem, such fruit vandalism. The author supplies no evidence that the legislature has insufficient time to address both types of problems. Until the author supplies this sort of evidence, he cannot convince me that the legislator’s attention to fruit vandalism comes at the expense of its attention to more serious problems.
In sum, the editorial fails to convince that fruit stealing and vandalism do not merit the legislature’s attention. To better evaluate the author’s position in this issue. I would need to know the extent of the problem and its social and economic consequence throughout the region. Only armed with this information could I make an informed judgment about the proper priorities of the legislature and, in turn, about the editorials merit.