Argument Reconstruction

Reconstruct the following paragraphs into a numbered list of premises and a conclusion. Be sure to label the premises and the conclusion, and to include any “missing premises” in your reconstruction. Feel free to interpret the argument in a way that is not a word for word translation. Note that not every sentence in the paragraphs may figure into your reconstructions.

1. Instead of being locked up, people who commit murder when they are in a psychotic state should be treated with drugs to change their condition. When in a psychotic state, they have no control over their own actions. So punishing them is not appropriate because it cannot make them change their behavior. Thus locking them up in prisons or secure units is pointless.

2. Environmentalists who are concerned about the likelihood of extinction of many
animal and plant species suggest that protected areas should be introduced world- wide. But in some poor countries this would prevent people using the only natural resource available to them. Economic aid should be given to such countries, in addition to setting up protected areas, because without such aid the poor would be paying the price of conservation, rather than the international community.
3. If the money has been stolen, someone must have disabled the alarm system, because the alarm easily wakes me if it goes off. So the culprit must be a member of the security firm which installed the alarm.