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Of those three, the
argument
as war is the dominant one.
That's the kind of
argument
we want.
And as an educator, this is the one that really bothers me: If
argument
is war, then there's an implicit equation of learning with losing.
Suppose you and I have an
argument.
OK, who won that
argument?
There's the proponent and the opponent in an adversarial, dialectical
argument.
Now, can you imagine an
argument
in which you are the arguer, but you're also in the audience, watching yourself argue?
Can you imagine yourself watching yourself argue, losing the argument, and yet still, at the end of the argument, saying, "Wow, that was a good argument!"
I think you can, and I think if you can imagine that kind of argument, where the loser says to the winner and the audience and the jury can say, "Yeah, that was a good argument," then you have imagined a good
argument.
They would not take the hypothetical seriously, and without the hypothetical, it's very difficult to get moral
argument
off the ground.
And you can get moral
argument
off the ground, then, because you're not treating moral principles as concrete entities.
This has never made much sense to me, this
argument.
The health
argument
is a scary one, and you've probably heard part of this
argument
before.
That's part of a much larger health
argument.
Finally, the environmental
argument
is fascinating, because the environmentalists turned on a dime about 10 years ago.
The carbon mapping of America, where is the CO2 being emitted, for many years only hammered this
argument
in more strongly.
And we don't want to have this
argument.
And then there's the
argument
that okay, yes, this might be going on, but then again, other countries are doing it as well.
And then the
argument
that the United States is only fighting terrorists.
I'm going to tell you three stories on the way to one
argument
that's going to tell you a little bit about how we open user-generated content up for business.
Here's the
argument.
Now there will be those who will argue that this could all too easily drift into a form of censorship, albeit self-censorship, but I don't buy that
argument.
And there's really no
argument
about this among anthropologists.
Someday we may find some slight hole in that
argument.
RNG: How could a reasoned
argument
logically entail the ineffectiveness of reasoned arguments?
Time and again, a thinker would lay out an
argument
as to why some practice was indefensible, irrational, inconsistent with values already held.
Eventually their conclusions get absorbed into the common sense of decency, erasing the tracks of the original
argument
that had gotten us there.
Few of us today feel any need to put forth a rigorous philosophical
argument
as to why slavery is wrong or public hangings or beating children.
SP: Are you saying that people needed a step-by-step
argument
to grasp why something might be a wee bit wrong with burning heretics at the stake?
RNG: And if, our friends, you detect a flaw in this argument, just remember you'll be depending on reason to point it out.
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