Plastic Bags Are Good For You By Katherine Mangu-Ward

Guilt can be a major force or motivator that can help influence one’s decisions. Parents often use this as a tool to persuade their children. Advertisements often use this as a tool to persuade consumers. When a party inflicts guilt on another party it is usually to convince and persuade them. Guilt is also a huge tactic used for many controversial topics. The ability to persuade as stated before definitely comes in handy when some sort of bias is trying to be accomplished. In the article Mangu-Ward characterizes the cause and effect relationships which have lead to the unpopularity of plastic bags in terms of guilt.
The article Plastic bags are Good for you, by Katherine Mangu-Ward was written to explore the pro’s and con’s of three different types of bags. Which is better between plastic, paper, or reusable bags has always been a debatable question with an opinionated answer. In the article Mangu-Ward characterizes the cause and effect relationships which have lead to the unpopularity of plastic bags in terms of guilt.

She states, “After several high profile suffocation deaths of children, manufacturers worked together to create a public safety campaign staving off regulation and reducing accidents.”(Mangu-Ward,3).This is a good cause and effect relationship because the cause is clear, high profile suffocation killing children has led to the effect of a public safety campaign which in result, should reduce the high profile suffocation . Plastic bags causing the death of children is a very serious and attention grabbing matter. The fact that all that was done to try to solve this problem was a public safety campaign works against plastic bags. Since plastic bags can lead to a child suffocating themselves, to avoid the suffocation of their children, parents can be guilted into buying paper or reusable bags which leads to the unpopularity of plastic