The BPRC's work, like that of all scientists doing medical testing on animals around the world, relies on a utilitarian argument: Subjecting a small number of highly sentient beings to a horrible life and death is necessary to reduce the suffering and death of huge numbers of others.
Hence the underlying frame of a certain language has a fixed constituent order in terms of the finite verb and its two arguments, subject and object.
But the above argument is subject to a very different sort of criticism, one that is connected with a feature of the above argument which seems to me important, but which is not often commented upon the fact, namely, that the above argument is formulated in terms of axiological concepts, that is, in terms of the goodness or badness, the desirability or undesirability, of states of affairs.
What Orr never explicitly states--because it's a contentious argument, the subject of passionate debate over recent decades--is the idea that form drives meaning.
However, this argument is subject to discussion, because the choice of the method which the teacher decides to use will depend on several factors including flexibility of the teaching programme depending on the facilities available and personal preference of the individual teacher, according to the circumstances.
It's like "Peyton Place," but with academic arguments over subject matter jurisdiction.
Although they could be vicious, such arguments remained subject to a sense of comradeship and shared struggle.
The arguments and subject are beyond the scope of the Book Haven; its criticism of the use of language is not.
The NRA, for its part, cites the risk of governmental overreach as a cornerstone of its argument for subjecting any contested gun purchase to the scrutiny of a judge.
