While I understand where such a defensive stance stems from, I find such arguments counterproductive.
Brinkmam's mission may be oddly counterproductive: If the arguments of evolutionary atheists can be rendered as effectively through the medium of rap as through books upon books of prolix prose, maybe there's not that much more to the latter.
The end-of-civilisation argument is counterproductive to a serious public discourse on our actions.
Family doctors, for example, this week grabbed an increase in their modest fees for consultations and home visits, but only after going on strike, demonstrating in the street and, last week, having a bust-up with riot police that was much-photographed.Yet the argument is counterproductive.
In some other parts of Europe, there is considerable sympathy for the Greeks' plight, and for their argument that austerity has proved counterproductive.
It does seem as though the wars that sought to bring democracy to some of those countries were, at least as a form of liberalizing or modernizing argument, entirely ineffective and arguably counterproductive.
Isolation has not worked: it is "both counterproductive and dangerous .There is much in this argument; and it is easy to share the exasperation he seems to feel with some exiled lobbyists.
His argument was that it was a waste of time and was actually counterproductive; only one person wins, and the rest are resentful.
Wendy Moorhen, deputy chair of the Richard III Society, said while they acknowledged "the sincerity" of the Plantagenet Alliance case, further arguments over the king's final resting place "can only be counterproductive to the solemnity of the reburial".
Arguments over which are the "real" virtues can seem pointless and counterproductive, since many are the ways of excelling and flourishing intellectually (Battaly 2001).
