Word: argumentative
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...sounds a bit out there on Edge City, but I must admit that strangely enough, the idea of immortality appeals to me. The most compelling argument for deep-freeze is also one of the simplest: Either you are part of the experimental group, or you are part of the control, and the control group is dead. Thus, with an infinite gain associated with a successful experiment, I must believe that the 20 dollars a month utility loss that I will suffer is just buying me a ticket in the highest-stakes lottery on the planet: a chance...
...Even if it represents something of a p.r. nightmare to the drug companies, the trial concerns a principle they deem sacrosanct - that in the market economics of the pharmaceutical industry, profit remains the only incentive for the development of new cures. It's a compelling argument, of course, within its own logic (even though its critics like to point out that some of the AIDS drugs, such as protease inhibitors, were originally developed in taxpayer-funded institutions). But it's difficult to fault the drug companies for behaving according to corporate logic, which is based, above all else...
...Mullah Omar is another good argument for the separation of church and state. The separation of church and art, however, entails a deeper tragedy: Can it be that tolerance and mere aestheticism represent a kind of spiritual death...
...Ronald Reagan argument...
...Media people often label this a bad thing. They don't tell that to viewers because they don't want to alienate them even further. But you can make the argument that it's a sign of the health of the republic when people are not interested in Washington. If that government governs best which governs least, then lack of attention to government is a sign that government isn't meddling too much in people's lives. This is the classic Ronald Reagan argument that government is the problem, not the solution. He would have been happy had government withered...