Physics 3333 / CFB 3333 Homework 4 Read the following two
pieces, adapted from various sources. Analyze them using the
tools developed in Browne and Keeley. Sooner or later someone's
going to tell you that algebra teaches reasoning. This is a lie
propagated by, among others, algebra teachers. Writing is the
highest form of reasoning. This is a fact. Algebra is not. The
proof of this is all the people in my high school who were
whizzes at math but did not know a thing about history and could
not write a readable English sentence. For example, Snork favors
euthanasia of the old whose minds have declined, but it's not
hard to see that if "voluntary euthanasia" became common,
bullies would take what he had wrought and apply pressure on the
elderly or the disabled to get out of the way rather than use up
resources. Similarly, Snork says that parents up to a year or
two should be able to kill children with physical or mental
problems, with the OK of a group of Snorkists on hospital ethics
boards. That's gruesome en