Exploration Three: Literacy Events from Brian Klunder

A recent literacy event that occurred to me that taught me something valuable to hold onto when taking a part in arguments is that I should try and understand the point of view of the person that is tackling onto the specific topic and providing their reasoning about how it is either false or true even if their entire argument is filled with fallacies and opinions. It made me realize that trying to be aggressive towards the person's stance can be an attack on your own character and can make yourself look very childish and unskilled; even when your argument is true and is held up by facts and current events. Not to mention the argument could deteriorate and involve the attacking of characters relatively fast, depending on the person that you are having a discussion with.

Issues of Substantiation: Questions of disputed facts, definitions, causes, and consequences. Issues of substantiation are disputes that may seem bewildering to others, requiring evidence, testing, and reasoning towards the topic. Something like "a person became sick after eating his dinner" then we start by asking how he could be allergic to an ingredient in his meal. Resulting in questions being thrown around about what was the direct cause of his sickness, and establishing a cause and effect scenario to determine the specific source.

One of the state issues that I find to be important to discuss is the pollution in that goes in Lake Erie, disrupting the environment and the interaction that organisms have with the lake. It's important to me because this is a type of issue that should have no reason to exist considering that there needs to be boundaries that industrial companies cannot ever cross. The reason why people differ on this is because of the costs that come with the waste materials to be disposed of properly by companies that specialize in taking care of it. My stance is to obviously stop pollution from entering in places of grandeur like Lake Erie mainly because the businesses that don't care about their environmental surroundings and allow chemicals to reach the lake have enough money to prevent a situation like this, but due to their greed and their ignorance of the consequences that will come of polluting in natural environments. Not to mention that they continuously try to carve out loopholes to give them no responsibility for their actions in the Clean Water Act which is undeniably disturbing for them to act like this and have to receive negative feedback from a majority for them to stop their negligence of nutrient runoff from their practices.