arguing for
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Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire for themselves, and secondly those who desire it for others. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect, probably transitory, which only very limited minds can declare to be a certainty or a truth.
In arguing for increasing content owners' control over content users, it's not sufficient to say "They didn't pay for this use."
(...) Of what use is your arguing for or against God, when you just do not know who is God, and what are you talking about. (...).
It is generally agreed that Spinoza fell into nominalism. But he did in any case take measures to protect himself from idealism, both in developing his theory of a substance with infinite attributes, and in arguing for the parallelism of the two attributes extension and thought.