{"id":11881,"date":"2023-04-03T20:22:51","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T20:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/either-defend-the-view-that-we-should-stop-banning-performance-enhancing-drugs-or-defend-the-view-that-even-if-everyone-was-allowed-to-take-these-drugs-it-would-still-be-wrong-for-other-reasons-even\/"},"modified":"2023-04-03T20:22:51","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T20:22:51","slug":"either-defend-the-view-that-we-should-stop-banning-performance-enhancing-drugs-or-defend-the-view-that-even-if-everyone-was-allowed-to-take-these-drugs-it-would-still-be-wrong-for-other-reasons-even","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/either-defend-the-view-that-we-should-stop-banning-performance-enhancing-drugs-or-defend-the-view-that-even-if-everyone-was-allowed-to-take-these-drugs-it-would-still-be-wrong-for-other-reasons-even\/","title":{"rendered":"Either defend the view that we should stop banning performance enhancing drugs or, defend the view that even if everyone was allowed to take these drugs it would still be wrong for other reasons even though it would no longer count as cheating."},"content":{"rendered":"

First: In your intro paragraph you must absolutely state clearly the position you are going<\/p>\n

to defend. This is your thesis statement. You also want to say how you will argue for that\n<\/div>\n
thesis statement, so be sure to state what your primary argument is going to be. State\n<\/div>\n
briefly the major objection to your position you will be responding to. State briefly how\n<\/div>\n
you will defend your view against that objection. <\/div>\n
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Second: Motivate the reader to be interested in this particular question or this particular\n<\/div>\n
debate. For example, you could point out real-life policy questions that your topic is\n<\/div>\n
directly relevant too. You could show how work related to your topic would be useful in\n<\/div>\n
addressing other pressing moral or political questions. In whatever way you do it, you\n<\/div>\n
want the reader to understand why any normal, rational, curious, and thoughtful person\n<\/div>\n
should find a good paper on this topic worth reading.\n<\/div>\n
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Third: Carefully explain your argument. Walk the reader through all its parts and the\n<\/div>\n
evidence\/considerations\/premises on which it relies. Be sure to motivate your argument\u2014\n<\/div>\n
i.e. explain why one should find your argument compelling. For example, perhaps your\n<\/div>\n
argument benefits from not having to rely on controversial views about personhood.\n<\/div>\n
Perhaps your argument takes a very popular argument and improves upon it (be sure to\n<\/div>\n
state how it is an improvement). Perhaps your argument benefits from being novel\u2014\n<\/div>\n
maybe it takes into account things that other arguments have omitted.\n<\/div>\n
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Fourth: Carefully explain what you take to be the best objection to your argument.\n<\/div>\n
Perhaps it is objection to one of the premises or consideration upon which your argument\n<\/div>\n
relies. Perhaps it is an objection that your argument has ignored, or failed to do justice\n<\/div>\n
to, the rights of mothers, or the rights of fetuses. Motivate that objection\u2014explain why\n<\/div>\n
someone would find that objection to be a compelling problem for your argument.\n<\/div>\n
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Fifth: Carefully respond to the objection to your argument. This usually looks like either\n<\/div>\n
undermining the objection itself (e.g., challenging one of its premises), or, explaining how\n<\/div>\n
your argument could be changed to avoid or accommodate that objection. Perhaps the\n<\/div>\n
objection is that your argument ignores the possibility that potential persons have rights,\n<\/div>\n
and you explain how your argument works whether potential persons have rights or not.\n<\/div>\n
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Finally: In a concluding paragraph or two, walk the reader back through what you have\n<\/div>\n
done in the paper. In many ways this is a rehash of your introduction. But unlike your\n<\/div>\n
introduction, which is essentially a road map for what is to come, your conclusion can\n<\/div>\n
include some commentary on the journey. You can reemphasize important points. You\n<\/div>\n
can make suggestive remarks on what further questions have been raised by your\n<\/div>\n
discussion, etc. Don\u2019t go overboard. You still want to keep everything nice and tight. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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