Word: argument
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...only ones to reject this “market” argument. So does Yale’s chief investment officer, David Swenson, a Yale alumnus who earns roughly $1.1 million per year and manages an endowment fund that has outperformed Harvard’s in recent years. Recently, Swenson said, “the structure of Harvard Management is inherently unstable.” He also warned that, “You can’t pay managers astronomical amounts of money because it tears at the fabric of [a university...
Furthermore, allowing religious groups and individuals exemptions from a reasonable civil law is discriminatory to non-religious organizations and individuals. While religious people can claim that being subjected to a certain law is against their most deeply held religious convictions, atheists cannot raise such an argument in order to seek exemption from a law. An adamantly anti-homosexual adoption agency with no religious affiliation would not be able to seek the same exemption sought by Catholic charities but would rather have to attempt to articulate a secular reason why they cannot place children in same-sex homes. Would said homophobic...
Among many Democrats, the stock argument is that Bush made his decision capriciously, and they remain unconvinced that he did his due diligence when deciding that preemption was right in Iraq’s case...
...argument gains force as more and more states pass laws requiring, as part of pre-abortion counseling, that pregnant women be informed that the baby's father has a legal obligation to pay child support. These rules were a response to evidence that the overwhelming majority of women seeking abortions do so for social and economic rather than medical reasons. Abortion opponents hope that by informing women about the legal and financial support systems available to them, including the father's obligations, they might reduce the number who choose abortion...
...larger philosophical argument is basically this: Do men have as much of a right to control their reproductive lives and financial futures as women do? "Roe v. Wade really changed the world for women," Feit says. "It allowed them to separate intimacy from procreation, freed them from the fear of contraceptive failure. That kind of empowerment and security that women feel in intimate relations - well, men can't, frankly." The only sure protection is total abstinence. Feit contends that men who don't want to have a child and made reasonable efforts to avoid it should at least be able...