"Now that straight sex no longer takes place only within marriage, a whole variety of couplings have become acceptable," argues Lynne Segal, professor of psychology and gender studies at Birkbeck College, London.
No longer is it acceptable to argue that exceptions to the rule do not matter.
Over time it has become less acceptable to argue that my beliefs, morals, and ways of life are better than yours simply because they are mine, or because they are traditional, or because my religion is better than your religion, or because my God is the One True God and yours is not.
It is therefore acceptable, he argued, to exclude same-sex couples.
However, these techniques are mostly economics based and do not adequately consider other critical and strategic factors, such as social and environmental impacts, which cannot be captured by monetary valuations and in some cases not ethically acceptable, as argued by Cavallaro (2005).
A closer resemblance to the paradigm involving an acceptable gift would argue in favour of letting the manager accept the radio.
Given that there were few well-preserved, clean G. ruber tests for these sites and that replicate measurements of Mn/Ca and Mg/Ca ratios were within an acceptable range, we argue that samples from runs #2 to #4 may have involved impure G. ruber tests in which barite crystallized on fossil shell surfaces.
It sounded logical, acceptable, except Kidd could argue that it took all of one season for him to mesh with the Nets and go all the way to the N.B.A. finals.
One might therefore argue that acceptable test-retest reliability for the overall score is what is important.
Arguing Acceptable Risks Some gay men argue that with drug therapy prolonging lives, H.I.V. has become just one of many hazards and that unprotected sex is a calculated risk, not unlike others that rational people take every day.
