Word: argumentative
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...People think they can make an argument, regardless of its philosophical implications, and not own up to those implications,” says Will Saletan, chief political correspondent for Slate magazine and author of a recent book on abortion politics, Bearing Right. “They think that arguments are like kites: they can float them up in the wind and pull them back when they want to. But what happens is the wind breaks your string and takes your kite away. The wind here is choice. When [pro-lifers] concede that abortion needs to be reduced through each woman?...
According to Saletan, the slogan’s co-opted notion of choice is undermined by the word “never.” “Pro-choice activists are within their rights to argue with these posters, but they need to focus their argument on the word ‘never,’ not on the word ‘choice,’” he says. “[SFC should] say congratulations to our former opponents for seeing the light and recognizing that the choice of whether to have an abortion...
Some rebut that the U.S. has every right to place conditions on our foreign aid. Of course this argument is valid, but the question is what stipulations are in our nation’s long-run interests. I would argue that perhaps our most fundamental interest lies in the promotion of democracy abroad. If we are to silence any speech, it ought to be that which undermines democracy. A gag rule that prohibits funding organizations that promote terrorism on the side is thus justifiable. But abortion advocates, unlike supporters of terrorism, are an important voice within any democratic dialogue. Last...
...legality of the United States’ creation of an extrajudicial system in Cuba. U.S. Solicitor General Theodore B. Olson provided the main tenets of the government’s position in the Rasul case. According to his brief, the prisoners should not be considered prisoners of war. This argument is dubious at best. These prisoners—most allegedly linked in some way to Taliban forces—ought to be classified as POWs and afforded the rights called for by the Geneva Convention...
North Star sixth-grader Oluyomi Ijandipe explains the appeal of Wish's program from a kid's perspective. "In a regular music class, you've gotta raise your hand," says the baby-faced B.B. King fan. "In this one, you're just hangin'." This could, of course, be an argument for sticking with regular music classes. Except that in most cases, there are no regular music classes. Sixty percent of students in grades K through 12 in the U.S. get no music at all in school, according to the Music Education Coalition, a group made up of instrument makers...