Critical Question: What are the descriptive assumptions? For each of the three p

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Critical Question: What are the descriptive assumptions? For each of the three passages, locate important assumptions made by the author. Remember first to determine the conclusion and the reasons.

Passage 1 Those who try to fight the use of animals in medical experiments often harm their own cause. Their tactics create more enemies than friends. Pouring blood on a researcher's car or breaking into laboratories to "liberate" animals is too extreme to attract respect for their cause. To be believable as a spokesperson for kindness and humanity, one must represent reason and humility. Argument, not physical coercion, will accomplish a deserved objective. A seminar is more productive in helping such animals than are all the shouting and violence used by animal rights activists.

Passage 2 Should it be legal for newspaper and television reporters to refuse to reveal their confidential sources? Indeed it should. The reporter-informant relationship is, after all, similar to those of priest and penitent, lawyer and client, physician and patient---all of which have a degree of privacy under the law. Moreover, if that relationship were not protected, the sources of information needed by the public would dry up.

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Answer: Passage1-

Assumption: Tactics opted by animal rights activists harm their own cause.

Reason: Because their (animal rights activists) act of violence or humiliation (for example breaking laboratories, pouring blood on a researcher's car) will not be supported either by medical researchers or by general public as it harms both. By such acts, rather than achieving their goal of animal liberation they will create more enemies for themselves. They will lose their respect as well as their cause of animal liberation. Act of violence and destroying researchers’ work are main causes that hinders the achievement of goal and respect in society.

Conclusion: people who protect animal rights need to opt for other strategies (like, organizing seminars, generating awareness) to achieve their goal rather than violence or any act that harms others in any way.

Passage 2-

Assumption: Maintaining confidentiality of sources of information used by newspaper and television reporters.

Reason: Sources of information used by newspaper and television reporters should be confidential because right of privacy comes under law. And if newspapers or television won’t respect or consider their privacy, sources might lose their reliability gradually that will ultimately affect the information given by them. For example, if a person gives some important information over an issue and his/her privacy is not protected then it will disturb his/her personal/ daily life in many ways by public and that disturbance will keep him away from proving information or coming out for good cause.

Conclusion: To keep informations more reliable and optimum, newspapers or televisions need to maintain confidentiality of sources of information and should respect laws. And if strict laws are made over such guidelines then newspaper or television have to follow the same and as a result informations needed by public won’t dry.

Note: Only two passages are shown but three passages are mentioned in the question.

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