You have just heard a friend make the following statement. Decide whether his or her reasoning is sound or unsound. Then write a paragraph or two explaining your judgment.

1. I would vote this year if I could be reasonably sure any of the candidates

would do a good job. But I have no way to be sure, so It's a waste of time to vote.

2. Physical fitness is very fashionable today. Yet the great philosophers agree that the mind is more important than the body. So, the physical fitness movement should be opposed.

1. No honest lawyer would agree to represent a person accused if a

crime because if the person is innocent, he doesn't need defending,

and if he is guilty, he doesn't deserve defending.