An alternate Executive Committee Member shall ipso facto cease to be an alternate Executive Committee Member if his appointor ceases for any reason to be an Executive Committee Member.
The division of labour, however, so far as it can be introduced, occasions, in every art, a proportionable increase of the productive powers of labour.
The other is the fit between certain practices, whatever their moral permissibility, with the honor or recognition that the state should accord in allowing marriage. So Steve has a pretty good counter argument.
So the key really is to make sure that you analyse and understand these verbal cues within the cultural context so that you're able to adapt your reaction and your response accordingly.