The phrase "as a soft option" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe a choice or decision that is perceived as easy or less challenging compared to other alternatives.
Example: "Choosing to take the easier route in the project was seen by some as a soft option, rather than tackling the more complex issues head-on."
Alternatives: "as an easy choice" or "as a convenient option".
Libraries are often seen as a soft option for cuts.
They see this compassion as a soft option, particularly as Megrahi is still alive today, when doctors' predictions that he'd live only three months helped his release.
Richard Ellis, communications manager, PRCA Richard says: On in-house versus agency PR: In-house is often perceived as a soft option; shorter hours, good pay etc.
The topics are part of a new course drawn up by OCR, one of England's biggest exam boards, which said that the subject should not be seen as a soft option.
The Barnett government has previously canvassed the idea of garnishing welfare payments or increasing the jail time required to pay off a fine, regarding the current system as a "soft option".
Luke Ford plays Darren Cody, who makes far more money selling drugs in league with crooked cops, but the drug trade is faintly despised by his gun-toting robber-siblings as a soft option; well-dressed Darren is himself suspected to be gay, and selling drugs is evidently scorned as a "gay" sort of crime by these old-school tough guys.
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Baker added that a decriminalized model, as adopted by countries such as Portugal, was not a "soft option" and said that the government wanted to "get tough on those who are causing misery, who are causing harm to our society — the drug dealers".
Mac Mathúna described it as "unashamedly nostalgic and wistful" but, as a gentle introduction to Sunday mornings, it was not a soft option but rather an unashamed effort to honour the carriers of a living tradition.
Behavioural activation is not a soft option.
But the bill would not have been a soft option.
