Claim: We need to help stop the murder of people in Darfur
Data: A Genocide is occurring in Darfur
Warrent: Genocide is murder
Backing: Murder is illegal and it is the intentional killing of another person
Grounds: Innocent adults and children are being killed and enslaved everday
Qualifiers: We should help Darfur keep its children safe. We should provide medical attention and means of defense to the people of Darfur.
Rebuttal: Unless helping Darfur will cause our country to be in a second war. Unless the people of Darfur refuse our help.
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There's good content here in regards to the various reasons someone might support interventionin Darfur, but the Toulmin models asks you to look at one claim at a time. so, for the claim you state above, Toulmin would probably put it this way:
ReplyDeleteClaim: We need to intervene in Darfur
(because)
Data: genocide is occurring
Warrant: we should work to prevent genocide