The phrase "argument for asking" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the rationale or reasoning behind making a request or inquiry.
Example: "The argument for asking for help is that it can lead to better outcomes and solutions."
Alternatives: "justification for inquiring" or "reason for requesting".
The weight of those billions has bolstered the arguments for conservatives asking the government to back off on subsidies for student loans.
What are the arguments for not asking Greece to do the same?
Bell asks Congress to fund the national telephone system because it would benefit society "in a way never previously attempted". However, Morse used the same argument when asking for funding of his telegraph a mere 50 years before.
Objection safely handled, you rebuild your argument before asking for a smaller payment.
For all the force of her multiple examples, Ravitch at times disappoints by relying on ridicule rather than argument, asking, for instance, whether we should retitle "Death of a Salesman" as "Death of a Sales Representative".
Zuck concluded this argument asking for patience from Wall Street, saying "The long-term bet is that by enabling people to have good organic interactions with businesses, that will end up being a massive multiplier on the value of the monetization down the road".
Here he makes the argument explicit, asking us to see, learn, test-drive for ourselves.
In fact, such a direct argument was asked for by Erdélyi and Szabados already for the real case.
What's the argument, he asks, for keeping superstars like Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa out of the Hall of Fame for behavior that didn't violate baseball's rules at the time, or that weren't systematically enforced?
Of course, those ethicists who are closer to the policy making side of medicine and technology, rather than the philosophical debates, will cringe at this argument, asking only for the specific instances in which the modification could, in even the most generous sense, confer value.
