Word: argument
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...Another argument for keeping the laws is that they serve as a sign of respect for Holocaust victims, allowing survivors in Germany to live their lives without having to confront Nazi symbols or reprints of Mein Kampf. Some Germans are also still uneasy about simply lifting the anti-Nazi laws and moving on - not just because of lingering guilt, but because of the resurgence of far-right groups and political parties. "We need to keep the current strict anti-Nazi laws to protect people and their basic rights," says Hajo Funke, professor of political science at Berlin's Free University...
...found on the issue of “mind control.”Swastikas, among other offensive symbols, are banned in many European countries. Scientology has failed to obtain religious recognition in France, Germany, and the UK, among others, and Greece has banned it altogether. The mind-control argument in relation to burqas is easy to make. Absent the expectations of fathers, brothers, and husbands, what woman would choose to wear a burqa ? It deprives them of ordinary human interaction and makes them wholly subservient to the men in their lives. Burqas, it can be argued, infringe on freedom...
...policy-is-tougher-than-yours posturing. The Conservative Party also raised eyebrows with its choice of allies in the European Parliament: a new right-wing grouping chaired by Polish MEP Michal Kaminski, a former member of two hard-right parties. But Pickles says the key to winning the argument against extremism is to take it back to grassroots. "The only way to deal with [the far right] is by local politicians championing their neighborhoods and being very proud that they represent their electors," he says. (Read: "David Cameron: UK's Next Leader...
...Howard Engle, 89, a doctor, continued to smoke despite being the lead plaintiff in a 1998 class action against tobacco companies. The trial ended with a $145 billion award--later voided--cementing the argument that manufacturers knowingly addicted smokers and failed to warn them about the dangers of lighting...
When I run this example by Lucian Bebchuk, a Harvard Law School professor who has supplied much of the intellectual firepower for the current pay-regulation campaign, he has a ready retort. "When they run out of good, substantive arguments, they come to the argument of unintended consequences," he says of pay-regulation opponents. "We have seen the consequences of the lack of intervention in the last 10 years. We have lived with that experiment...