The Generational Argument is an argument from the best explanation about the cause of the disparity of ethical views that often occur between people of widely different generations, ethnic or racial communities, and geographic locations.
In another generation, the argument goes, this won't be a subculture; it'll be the culture (however balkanized).
For almost a generation, the argument against allowing gay men and lesbians to serve openly in the military rested heavily on the claim that they would damage the morale and readiness of America's armed forces.
For a generation, the argument over fur has hinged on notions of cruelty, but in a global garment industry driven by Rana Plaza style sweatshops, most faux fur merely trades one kind of cruelty for another.
The first is that gene editing is wrong because it affects future generations, the argument being that the human germline is sacred and inviolable.
We have had generations of argument in this country between those who give priority to the text and original understandings of the Constitution, and those who view the Constitution as a living instrument meant to evolve with the times.
As such, it might not be the provision of question prompts and webs that facilitated the generation of quality arguments but rather how students used these scaffolds to support their argument construction that were important.
Verheij 1999 has developed systems of automated argument assistance which function as computational aids that can assist in the generation of an argument (a link to his Automated Argument Assistance web site is included in Other Internet Resources below).
The dummy variable for belonging to the "second generation" picks up arguments given in the dynamic model of cultural learning by Fernandez (2013), for instance.
But the researchers at the CRS should get busy preparing for the next generation of birther arguments which will be based on science, rather than 19th-century territories.
Re "Manny Joins the Lost Generation," May 8: The argument against steroids is that it gives the users a competitive edge.
