Word: argument
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...Stanford University in which five different brands of faulty condoms were recalled after being distributed freely to the student body by the campus Student Health Peer Resource Center. The fact that even married couples could theoretically have been affected by the faulty condoms misses the point of the argument for pre-marital sexual abstinence: While accidental and unintended pregnancies occur in marriages all the time, those children are usually brought into the world with significant advantages (such as a stable environment in which they can be physically and emotionally nourished and protected) over their less fortunate counter-parts born...
...Duties Toward the Body in Respect of Sexual Impulse," a portion of his Lectures on Ethics, Immanuel Kant made a powerful argument against sexual relations out-of-wedlock. The argument is all the more hard-hitting when one reflects that Kant is considered to be a father of modern liberalism. Suggesting that the rights of sexual partners to each other could only be secured by marital commitment, Kant argued that "there must be a basis for restraining our freedom in the use we make of our inclinations so that they conform to the principles of morality." This is at odds...
...timetable to reduce emissions, the big-money industry and labor interests he needs in 2000 will scream. Which is why Gore's political advisers tried to talk him out of going to Kyoto, cornering him in a White House hallway a week before the conference began. Gore shut the argument down. "If I weren't going to run for President, there would be no discussion of whether I should go," he said. "I'm going...
...other students questioned parts of Farmer's argument...
...Everett resident stated that at 12:05 a.m. while at 44 Columbia St. she had an argument with an acquaintance. This person then struck her in the head with a steel kettle, the resident reported...