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Friedrich's argument, by contrast, was direct and sure of its moral clarity. Throughout the event, he peppered his arguments with colorful quotations from celebs and intellectuals alike...
Hopkin and questioners from the audience rarely presented compelling reasons to dispute the main thrust of Friedrich’s well-supported argument. The PETA leader argued that facts overwhelmingly show that eating meat is bad for the environment, for the world's poorest, and for the conscious experiences of animals. Instead of disputing Friedrich's figures, Hopkin and others raised abstract intellectual questions heard in Social Studies 10 and “Justice”: How can we compare animal pain with human pain? And can animals be a part of the social contract...
...economies is one that economists don't like to think about. They prefer to consider economies as yo-yos tethered to the sturdy string of the business cycle, moving up and down from growth to slowdown and back. But from time to time, things do snap. And Summers' argument in 1986 was that unemployment in Europe, the sort that might persist in the face of growth, was an expression of an economy that had snapped. Europe's economy was hit not only by shocks like an oil-price spike, a productivity collapse and rocketing tax rates but also by stubborn...
This is really kind of a new thing. And the argument that I'm going to try to make is that this is a new kind of service, a new kind of civic engagement; that people are becoming kind of citizen consumers, and that is related to this idea of service. The President: Well, I think you especially see that in the next generation, even among our daughters. I remember Malia maybe three years ago - she was eight or seven - said, you've got to get a hybrid because this is polluting the air and killing polar bears...
...this group of Americans or Americans as a whole are embracing. The President: Well, I think this is a positive thing, and it speaks to something we've tried to express during the campaign - Washington hasn't quite caught up to it yet - and that is that a traditional argument was between those who thought government could do everything and those who thought government shouldn't do anything. And even the way you framed the description spoke a little to that old paradigm: liberal, moderate, conservative. My sense is what people are looking for now is a sense of responsibility...