Friday, March 5, 2010
Persuasion via analogy
For my persuasive essay i am going to argue that marijuana should indeed be legalized by the government. I will not do this by simply presenting the plethora of valid reasons, but instead by using a reasonable analogy. The legal distribution and consumption of caffeine in its most common form, coffee will be the focal point of my analogy. I will research specific statistics and evidence that caffeiene is potentionally more harmful than marijuana and yet millions of people all over the world consume it multiple times per day. What would happen if caffeine was illegal? Would it have the same fate as marijuana? Would people smuggle coffee beans over the border, and distribute them illegally to the masses of addicts? In my essay i will start with the analogy and then when the reader starts to see the irrationality in making caffeine an illegal substance i will relate it to the role of marijuana in America today. Is legalizing caffeine and not marijuana justified on any level?
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Coffee illegal? Where would that leave me???
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like an interesting analogy (and a fun one to extend throughout your essay). Consider each element in the 'war' against marijuana (it's illegal import and/or cultivation, the distribution, the effects, the price, medical use, etc.) and then try to 'match up' coffee as you consider what effect prohibiting it would have. Hmmm... this could make for a good read (but does the analogy work both ways? Will we have a "Budbucks" on every corer with people coming in desperate for their morning bowl?
Again, this sounds like a fun approach. I look forward to reading your first draft (just make sure you don't let that analogy become 'faulty').