This is false!
Attitude does not have anything to do with effectiveness: it can relate to everything. One can have an attitude towards everything: other people, ideas, places, it basically means an opinion about something, a way of thinking about something.
The Pendleton Act of 1883 classified jobs to people based on merit rather than political connections.
Answer with Explanation:
The evaluation of every matter requires a framework based on a useful ideas that are required for a better judgement for deriving a solution like if we want to resolve a mathematical problem, then we will use mathematical functions like +, -, *, etc so that we are able to solve the question because these are the ideas that are based on a useful ideas (Logic). Likewise when we want to assess whether the argument is good or not, we will require an ethical standard framework to evaluate the good in the argument.
So yes, I agree that ethics is an essential element of a good argument because it is the framework which decides which argument is good or not. These ethical values in a particular argument is a move from not good to good argument. Greater the ethical values in an argument the more is the argument good as per ethical principles.
