Sentence examples for argument that can justify from inspiring English sources
It'd be hard to find any argument that can justify the conditions in which animals are routinely raised for slaughter today in the concentrated, industrial-style form of husbandry that is required to provide cheap meat to growing and increasingly prosperous populations.
One line of argument that can be offered in favor of accessibility internalism, though one that has seldom found explicit expression in the literature, trades on the idea that one is justified in believing p only if one has justified the belief that p. (Leite 2003 discusses the connection between being justified and justifying).
So no argument can justify projecting observed patterns onto unobserved cases.
Hacksaw Ridge is a repudiation of the argument that ends justify means.
Without congressional consent, the Obama Administration developed two legal arguments that could justify action against Assad.
Libertarians, who tend to be sceptical of state power, resist public goods arguments that would justify it.
My guess is that Bentham never looked too closely at what happens in a slaughterhouse, but the argument suggests that, in theory at least, a utilitarian can justify the killing of humanely treated animals -- for meat or, presumably, for clothing.
In order for some proposed principle or rule, X, to meet the test of public reason, do the reasons or arguments that justify X need to be shared by all members of the constituency of justification, or can X meet the test of public reason by being justified to different people by appeal to different arguments?
