For Better or Worse Reasoning [Kindle Edition]

Michael LaBossiere (Author)

Book Description

This concise work is aimed at presenting a logical assessment of the stock arguments against same-sex marriage. While my position is in favor of legalizing same-sex marriage, I have made every effort to present a fair and rational assessment of the stock arguments against it.

The work itself is divided into distinct sections. The first section provides some background material regarding arguments. The second section focuses on the common fallacious arguments used to argue against same-sex marriage. The third section examines standard moral arguments against same-sex marriage and this is followed by a brief look at the procreation argument. The work closes, appropriately enough, with a few modest proposals regarding marriage.

Contents
Arguments
“Argument” Defined
Varieties
General Assessment of Arguments
Fallacies
Stock Fallacious Arguments against Same-sex Marriage
Appeal to Tradition
Appeal to Belief
Appeal to Common Practice
Slippery Slope
Weak Analogy
Non-Fallacious Arguments
Intuitions & Definitions
Appeal to Intuition
Argument by Definition
The Religious Arguments
The Moral Arguments
Homosexuals are Immoral Argument
The Unnatural Argument/The Natural Argument
Appeal to Consequences
The Sanctity Argument
The Procreation Argument
Marriage: A Few Modest Proposals

Product Details

• File Size: 258 KB
• Print Length: 49 pages
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B0082FVY9Q
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Not Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #767,803 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

More About the Author

Michael LaBossiere is a guy from Maine who went to school in Ohio and ended up a philosophy professor in Florida.

While acquiring his doctorate in philosophy at Ohio State University, he earned his ramen noodle money by writing for GDW, TSR, R. Talsorian Games, and Chaosium. After graduate school, he became a philosophy professor at Florida A&M University. His first philosophy book, What Don't You Know?, was published in 2008. He continues to write philosophy and gaming material. He is also a blogger, but these days who isn't?

When not writing, he enjoys running, gaming and the martial arts. Thanks to a quadriceps tendon tear in 2009, he was out of running for a while, but returned to the trails and wrote a book about it, Of Tendon & Trail.