Using discarded embryos to harvest stem cells promises to benefit people with serious diseases that currently have no effective treatment, like parkinson’s disease and alzheimer’s. those people who argue that an embryo is essentially a human being place more importance on a mass of cells than they do on the health of people who are already alive and in need of . unstated assumption: explanation:
When you assume something, you believe that to be the case, even though you cannot prove it. For instance, people might make the assumption that someone does not eat much because he or she is thin, even though that does not have to be true.
In this statement, the speaker is assuming that those people who argue that embryos are human beings give more importance to those "cells" than to the health of living people with illnesses such as Parkinson that could benefit from them, and therefore do not support the use of discarded embryos on research against those diseases, and that is not necessarily true.
The unstated assumption here is that anyone who thinks that using these embryos is unjust because they believe the embryo is already a baby, does not care about the lives currently being affected by these diseases that need cures. There is also an unstated assumption that embryos are not alive and therefore what happens to this “ball of cells” does not really matter. There is an assumption that these embryos are a key factor in finding treatment for these diseases.
The statement is for harvesting embryos by assuming that the reader agrees with the fact that embryos are not alive and that they are not human beings yet. Having to appeal to a reader is an important part in writing and this particular paragraph would probably not appeal so much to mothers. Some might argue that these harsh unstated assumptions about the audience of this passage would affect the overall opinion and reactions to it.
Unstated assumption: "Those people who argue that and embryo is essentially a human being place more importance on a mass of cells than they do on the health of people who are already alive and in need of help."
Explanation: Although it may seem as and argument expressing a logical relation when it says that the people who are against embryo use cares more about the embryo that for the people who are in need of help ,it is all based on presuppositions , on what the writer believes to be true based on environment around him. This unstated assumptions can lead the reader to believe a generalized term to be completely true, if we don't analyze carefully from where does the argument comes.
That Unstated Assumption is transmitting a generalized message, when we see the statement:
Those people who argues X > Think like this
It is meaning that ALL of the people who have the same argument thinks the same way, which is not true, because each one of them has it's own reasons to believe in something, although SOME people might think like the author stated.
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