Most of those who share Michaels's diagnosis and his anger tend to run this argument in the opposite direction, to show that corporate America has, for a pittance, sold the country out to race radicals, feminists and gay activists.
What about an argument in the opposite direction: if it is reasonable to believe in an afterlife, is it more reasonable to believe in theism?
In fact, you can make exactly the same sort of argument in the opposite direction when taxes are low, your colleagues spend more time at work which makes your own work time less frantic, more congenial and more productive.
The second bill would push the cost-of-living argument in the opposite direction: Instead of reducing benefits for seniors, it would weight the inflation calculation to account for those products seniors buy disproportionately, such as health care.
But two arguments pull in the opposite direction.
But he also thinks that the Mary argument itself "builds in the opposite assumption".
As an overworked beat reporter, I could absorb those arguments, and the opposite ones, and simply plow on in search of new facts.
Although these heuristic arguments suggest that network structure plausibly impacts cooperation, two other arguments suggest the opposite conclusion.
However, the secular stagnation argument is 180 degrees in the opposite direction.
Again, we get not an argument against biomedical interventions in moral decision-making, but a strong argument in their favour, just in the opposite direction.
