Word: argument
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...approved and embraced, the starchy traditionalist might reasonably reply: "Thanks, but heterosexuality as the sole acceptable form of sexual expression has been working out tolerably well over the past couple of millennia--I think that we ought to stick with what we know." The best way to address this argument is to prove beyond a doubt that homosexual union is a viable, albeit heretofore unexplored, version of virtuous living. Even the crustiest nostalgist will be forced to relent in the face of a thoroughly convincing argument...
...most overlooked argument against homosexuality considers its social utility. One might focus on the corrosive effects on the institution of marriage. Or one might conclude that unions which do not produce virtuous citizens should not be accepted...
...better response abandons name-calling in favor of reasoned discussion. This is the best way to reach some sort of consensus, and it is the only way that we will be able to determine collectively whether homosexuality deserves moral approbation. A shift toward a form of argument cleansed of hate language would make for a more civil and, ultimately more fruitful discourse...
This law, if passed, will no doubt be challenged on the grounds that it restricts the right to free speech. This argument--that restricting contributions to candidates is equivalent to silencing the contributors--is misleading. No campaign finance law prohibits contributing to any candidate or party. Instead, it is the magnitude of individual contributions these laws seek to limit. In the case of Question 2, the law in fact would require support to be shown in the form of contributions--candidates for governor, for instance, must garner 6,000 contributions of $5 to $100 to be eligible for public funds...
...Microsoft: it dispensed with the case law and put Bill Gates front and center. A disembodied, larger-than-life Gates hovered over Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's courtroom on a 10-ft.-tall computerized video monitor during much of government lawyer David Boies' opening statement. The thrust of Boies' argument: the fidgety, spectral man-in-the-monitor was coolly dissembling about his plans to dominate the world technology market...