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The phrase "a civil argument" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe a discussion or debate that is conducted in a respectful and polite manner, even if there are differing opinions. Example: "During the meeting, we managed to have a civil argument about the proposed changes to the policy, allowing everyone to express their views without hostility."
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He was making an argument — a respectful argument, a civil argument — against the logic of pacifism.
It disrespects the other person's ability to have a civil argument — and it disrespects the value of your own viewpoint and your own voice.
The tricky part of arguing as a feisty person is balancing your own genuine emotions with the needs of maintaining a civil argument.
Odds are you know exactly how to push the other person's buttons, but it's important to resist if you want to have a civil argument.
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This week's column is a conversation — a (mostly) civil argument — between two very different views of how journalism fulfills its mission.
Professor Dershowitz's contrary position appears to combine what he calls a "civil liberties" argument with a constitutional argument.
But the gay-marriage debate, while assuredly a civil rights argument, is much more than that.
There is a civil liberties argument that says the explosion of new media has rendered obsolete the need to regulate the airwaves.
No one is proposing — no one will ever seriously propose — banning or discouraging those who passionately believe in their metaphysical intuitions about life from proselytizing and promulgating for them wherever they will, as best they can, within the normal rules of civil argument.
No one is proposing no one will ever seriously propose banning or discouraging those who passionately believe in their metaphysical intuitions about life from proselytizing and promulgating for them wherever they will, as best they can, within the normal rules of civil argument.
Less civil arguments on the same topic were simultaneously held outside the Court, on the airwaves, and across the punditocracy.
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