Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...intellectual and financial free lunch. And there are other problems as well. To function properly, government must be a monopoly. We can argue, as we do, about what taxes and regulations ought to be imposed on individual citizens, and what benefits ought to be made available. Even after that argument is settled democratically, though, subsidiarity can make the settlement hard to enforce...
...maintains that the fund's argument against fast food outlets is flawed. He says with fast food available in so many other locations, it is unlikely that outlets will attract new business to the Square...
Those who support it argue that continued pressure is necessary to force change by the Castro regime. This is the classic argument behind most economic sanctions. The experience of the last few years, though, has prompted an overdue reconsideration of this theory. More often than not, these sanctions seem to decimate the population while doing little to those in power. It was the sight of starving Haitians still living under the gun of unrepentant (and quite well-off) dictators that sparked the Clinton administration to finally admit that sanctions weren't working. When sanctions do work (South Africa is most...
...even more compelling argument runs along political lines. The embargo may actually be helping Castro remain in power. By keeping the population near the sustenance level, the embargo may very well be draining what political activism might really be there. How can adults who must worry about their children's next meal be expected to demonstrate on the streets? The history of revolutions (from the French to the Iranian) give strong support to the argument that political activism often follows a rise in income. And political activism--in the form of opposition to Castro--is what the Cuban-American community...
Even if this argument holds, the killings of Shannon Lowney and Leanne Nichols are still not defensible; the two women were clinic receptionists, and were not involved directly with the actual medical procedure of abortion. But the argument does not hold, for a very simple reason: activists must not only have a morally justified goal, but they must pursue that goal through methods that are also just. The well-worn adage holds true: the end does not justify the means...