Overall Claim: While it is important to allow individuals the freedom to make their own choices about food, schools have a responsibility to promote healthy eating habits by limiting the availability of junk food, as it can lead to poor dietary habits and long-term health issues. Balancing personal choice with the promotion of health is essential in an educational setting.
Claim: Junk food should not be offered in school cafeterias. It’s unhealthy and leads to bad food habits.
Counterclaim: People should be allowed to make their own choices about food. This builds their capacity to make mindful choices.
A. Junk food leads to bad food habits, but people need to be able to make their own choices.
B. Junk food is unhealthy and causes many health problems.
C. Choices allow people to build their personalities.
D. Junk food leads to bad habits, and people make all sorts of choices in their lives, good and bad.
What overall claim could you make about the claim and counterclaim?
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