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.
What overall claim could you make about the claim and counterclaim?
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Junk food is unhealthy and causes many health problems.
Junk food is unhealthy and causes many health problems.
Junk food leads to bad food habits, but people need to be able to make their own choices.
Junk food leads to bad food habits, but people need to be able to make their own choices.
Junk food leads to bad habits, and people make all sorts of choices in their lives, good and bad.
Junk food leads to bad habits, and people make all sorts of choices in their lives, good and bad.
Choices allow people to build their personalities.
Choices allow people to build their personalities.
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The best overall claim that can be made about the claim and counterclaim is:
Junk food leads to bad habits, and people make all sorts of choices in their lives, good and bad.
This response acknowledges the negative impact of junk food while also recognizing the importance of individual choice.
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