- Big bonus: Duncan Public Schools Foundation recieves windfall by the Banner Staff
- Halliburton, Duncan link long-standing: Shareholders' meeting emphasizes differing perceptions by Rod Jones and Floyd Jernigan
The second article focuses on the local perception of Halliburton--a major employer with a reputation for "taking care of its workers and being a good citizen in its home city." [I know several of the Duncan residents quoted in this article, either personally or by reputation, and know them to be good people of honesty and integrity.] Several examples of Halliburton's good deeds were listed:
- Halliburton frequently gives money and surplus computers to local schools
- Halliburton send water tankers to help fight recent wildfires
- Halliburton led fundraising efforts to build Duncan Regional Hospital in 1981
- frequently provides volunteers to many local events
- Halliburton is also the largest user of the Simmons Center--both the recreation area and the convention center
Of course, listing these good deeds by Halliburton does not address the protesters' complaints about Halliburton. The only direct response to protesters' allegations was what G. Gordon Liddy would call a "gratuitous assertion"--an assertion that can be rebutted just as gratuitously: "Protesters either have incorrect facts or are exaggerating some of the problems."
My challenge to Halliburton supporters: name some specific incorrect facts or exaggerations--don't just tell me that protesters have them. Prove it, by showing how protesters are in error. Telling me how good Halliburton is begs the question--you are "assuming as true the very claim that is disputed."
Fallacies of Argument--ethical arguments should avoid these:
- Scare Tactics
- Eithor/Or Choices
- Slippery Slopes
- Sentimental Appeals
- Bandwagon Appeals
- Appeals to False Authority
- Dogmatism
- Moral Equivalence
- Ad Hominem Attacks
- Hasty Generalizations
- Faulty Causality
- Begging the Question
- Equivocation
- Non Sequiturs
- Faulty Analogy
