You write to persuade the reader that most people are somewhat ignorant about disabilities and automatically assume that they are not happy. An important point she makes is that those who are “ignorant” about disability simply cannot conceive that disabled people can be happy or enjoy life. He experiences it with Peter Singer. She writes, "For Singer, it's pretty simple: Disability makes a person 'worse.'" For him it's not even an individual issue, it's simply the way it works, and part of her purpose in writing this is to prove him wrong , to make it clear that they can live a perfectly happy life. He also uses persuasion to convince the reader that disabled children should not be killed. He writes: “We should not offer suicide assistance until we all have the assistance we need to get out of bed in the morning and live a good life." She argues that assisted suicide should not be offered to disabled people until they have the assistance that can enable them to live a good life. The way she conveys these points is through the tactic of personal experience, which establishes credibility with the reader. She focuses almost her entire piece on her experience with Peter Singer, a professor who advocates for assisted suicide for the disabled, and is