A person who knowingly commits a crime has broken the social contract and should not retain any civil rights or the right to benefit from his or her own labor.

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A person who knowingly commits a crime has broken the social contract and should not retain any civil rights or the right to benefit from his or her own labor.

The argument proposed in the topic suggest any person who knowingly commits a crime should lose their civil rights and their previleage as a worker in the labor market. I am afraid this argument is vague on its definition of social contract and holds a rather narrow, unforgiving view on social structure and what civil and human rights means.

Firstly, let's focus on the social contract mentioned in the argument. Every country, even different regions within one nation, has drastically different laws and common sense on what social contract means. The same issue can be seen under varies lens in different part of the country. abortion, for example, and performing abortion is completely illegal in any form in the state of Alabama; but it is legal and welcomed in states like California and New York. different cultures and different countries also have very different approach to the same issue due to historical and political reasons. In China, drug is a very sensitive social issue. Medical drugs are all strictly monitored by authorities and regulated by the government. All forms of recreational drugs are illegal,and any person involves in trade of recreational drug is severely punished with jail time and monetary punishment. Whereas in the United states, recreational drug, such as marijuana, is legal in many states, and with the appropriate notes from doctors, people can use them in schools and at work. The same logic applies to committing a crime knowingly--whether it violates the social contract or not largely depends on the context. it is not thoughtful to conclude that it is unacceptable or retain any civil right without checking the context.

civil rights is another part of the argument that needs clarification. it is unclear which type of civil rights the author is indicating. Surely, the person who commits crimes and goes to jail will temporarily lose some of his/her freedom of movement, which can be considered as one of many civil rights. but even for criminals in jail, they still have other basic civil rights, such as their freedom of speech, their human rights to receive education, for labor, and more. it is a haste to deny all the civil rights for a person just because of knowingly committing a crime.

As much as I strongly oppose to this statement, thinking from the other side of this argument, I can see why people might agree with this claim. even though civil rights and human rights are largely protected for almost everyone, no matter what s/he might have done in their life, there are people who are personally hurt or traumatized by others who knowingly commits crime. I have no doubt that I would feel very differently about this argument if, for example, my family members are murdered by someone knowingly commits crimes. Or people who knowingly commits crime truly did something so horrible that is beyond our sympathy. those are extreme cases, and we still need to evaluate those cases with the context and long discussions. Either way, we can not jump into conclusions as the argument does.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, if, so, still, whereas, for example, no doubt, such as, i am afraid

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.5258426966 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 26.0 14.8657303371 175% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 37.0 33.0505617978 112% => OK
Preposition: 59.0 58.6224719101 101% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 12.9106741573 116% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2555.0 2235.4752809 114% => OK
No of words: 510.0 442.535393258 115% => OK
Chars per words: 5.00980392157 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.75217629947 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.67180948725 2.79657885939 96% => OK
Unique words: 262.0 215.323595506 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.513725490196 0.4932671777 104% => OK
syllable_count: 801.0 704.065955056 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 6.24550561798 176% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 8.0 1.77640449438 450% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 1.0 4.38483146067 23% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.2370786517 119% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.3028789302 60.3974514979 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.458333333 118.986275619 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.25 23.4991977007 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.91666666667 5.21951772744 75% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 10.0 7.80617977528 128% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 10.2758426966 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 13.0 5.13820224719 253% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.382383968654 0.243740707755 157% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.102985478915 0.0831039109588 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0972494120187 0.0758088955206 128% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.252385711121 0.150359130593 168% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0819294983852 0.0667264976115 123% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 14.1392134831 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.8420337079 103% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.78 12.1639044944 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.36 8.38706741573 100% => OK
difficult_words: 119.0 100.480337079 118% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.8971910112 88% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:

para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.


Rates: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 Out of 6
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