Word: argumentative
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...staff’s argument in favor of President Lawrence H. Summers’ announcement is shortsighted and harsh. To accept suspension as an expected and fair punishment for unauthorized occupation of University buildings, the staff must believe that the University is perfect—that there would never be a need for students to act out against the University in protest...
Take, for instance, the case of pain as an example of conscious experience. Distinguished philosopher of mind Jaegwon Kim writes, in the Oxford Companion to Philosophy, that anti-physicalists have adduced the argument that “even if, say, pain should turn out to have a single neural-physical correlate across all organisms and other possible pain-capable systems, how could the painfulness of pain be a neurobiological property? In moving from the mental to the physical, we lose, it has been argued, what’s distinctively mental about mental properties...
...continue to be baffled by the way PSLM used the same rhetoric to justify ever-increasing wages. Back when it demanded a living wage of $10.25 per hour, the group used the moral argument that workers were being forced to live in poverty. For the sake of justice, they argued, wages had to be raised. Those same arguments were later used to justify the union’s $14 per hour demand. There is a limit to the wages that PSLM can justify on moral grounds, and that limit has passed—Harvard initially offered a starting wage...
State and local lawmakers have begun to regulate cell phone use in cars. They base these policies on the argument that since we can’t concentrate as well when we’re using one hand and two halves of our brain to talk while driving, it’s a threat to public safety. Let me modify this to apply to cell phones in classrooms: Since nobody can concentrate when “Yankee Doodle Dandy” blares from somebody’s cheap Nokia, that person’s safety deserves...
...common defense of Harvard’s recruiting policy is that our athletes (unlike athletes at other schools, like Stanford) are well-rounded individuals who will contribute to the classroom as well as just on the playing field. But this argument is severely lacking...