Mel: The official salary for judges has always been too low to attract the best candidates to the job. The legislature's move to raise the salary has done nothing to improve the situation, because it was coupled with a ban on receiving money for lectures and teaching engagements.
Pat: No, the raise in salary really does improve the situation. Since very few judges teach or give lectures, the ban will have little or no negative effect.
Pat's response to Mel is inadequate in that it
attempts to assess how a certain change will affect potential members of a group by providing evidence about its effect on the current members.
mistakenly takes the cause of a certain change to be an effect of that change.
attempts to argue that a certain change will have a positive effect merely by pointing to the absence of negative effects.
simply denies Mel's claim without putting forward any evidence in support of that denial .
assumes that changes that benefit the most able members of a group necessarily benefit all members of that group.
P反驳是利用现在法官们的从业限制(并不是plan想要吸引的那批最优秀的人才)来预测未来这个限制是否会影响到这个plan的有效性
犯了两个错误:
1)一小部分的法官会无偿的去教书不等于那些最有效的人才(effect on the current menber不等于potential members of a group)
2)现在的事情不等于未来的事情(current不等于future)
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