Term Papers on Boxing, Doctors-Round Two

Term Paper Title	Boxing, Doctors-Round Two
# of Words	792
# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	3.17

Boxing, Doctors-Round Two

Boxing often called “the manly art of self-defense”, which is a sport in which two competitors try to hit each other with their glove-encased fists while trying to avoid each other’s blows in a ring. It has been in existence and evolved from other forms of fighting for a long time. This game has become very popular in most of the countries because it is stimulating, so there are a lot of people like to watch it. However boxing is considered as a violent nature by some of the people. These opponents are trying to against and abolish it. In the essay “Boxing, Doctors-Round Two,” writer Lowell Cohn disagrees about boxing should be abolished. In my mind, his essay contains a lot of false arguments which involved personal attacks, false analogy, and hasty generalization to against the doctors in American Medical Association. Therefore I disagree with his points which he uses to support boxing because his false arguments are abusive and unreasonable.

First, this essay contains a lot of false statement and most of these statements are personal attacks. For example, first, after doctors wrote him letters using a personal attack against him, saying that Cohn “ must have had terrible experiences with doctors to have written what he wrote,” Cohn replies, “ That just shows how arrogant doctors are…Doctors are used to being right.” This reply involves an assumption that is not support or relevant to an argument or against boxing. Both of these statements are fallacious and involve personal attacks against the person(s) representing the argument rather than the argument itself. Second, Cohn also replies, “Why the outage over boxing?” He asks and only to answer himself with an attack, “Because many doctors are social snobs.” Cohn is being very judgment on the doctor in the AMA, although the claim against the AMA is not relevant or supports the author’s claims toward boxing. Therefore, Cohn argument is faulty because it is only evaluating and attacking the doctors instead of supporting his position.

Second, in this essay, Cohn spends several paragraphs criticizing certain doctors. He says, “If this doctor were really concerned with medical evidence, as he claims, he would attack all dangerous sports, not just boxing.” Cohn uses false ana...

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