Each of the following passages contains an argument. Identify orlist the premises, con clusions, and indicator words in eachpassage.
1) Government statistics show that it is safer to fly than todrive. Since government statistics are generally reliable, itfollows that if you are traveling across the coun try this summer,your chance of surviving the trip will be higher if you fly than ifyou drive.
2) Simple ethical egoism is a false ethical theory. For if itwere true,it would followt hat it is morally acceptable for someoneto make a living robbing little old ladies who just cashed theirmeager Social Security checks (if that is what the robber wants todo at the moment). But upon careful reflection on all the facts,including the inter ests of everyone involved, robbing little oldladies clearly seems morally wrong.
3)All differences in income and wealth between people are duesolely to luck. Since nobody deserves something if they have it duesolely to luck, it follows that all dif ferences in income andwealth are undeserved.
