In Reasons and Persons, Parfit is officially agnostic on the proper approach (he claims that arguments for both stances are defensible, yet also can be defensibly denied; see Parfit 1984, 311 312).
Indeed, the commission plan is eventually to sever the link between subsidy and production altogether; instead, taxpayers' support is to be directed, far more defensibly, at environmental goals and rural development.
He nevertheless supports Hobby Lobby's case against the government because of his "general feeling...that it's better to have an unjust law with exceptions than an unjust law that applies to everyone with equal ferocity .That may be a defensibly pragmatic position.
Pouchet argued, defensibly, that life must somehow arise from nonliving matter; if not, how had life come about in the first place?
If there are, say, 25 keys that could defensibly be included in the model, and you can pick any set of 13 of them, that is a total of 5,200,300 possible combinations.
Indeed an early-stage human embryo, with no nervous system and presumably lacking pain and fear, might defensibly be afforded less moral protection than an adult pig, which is clearly well equipped to suffer.
Softened up, Cameron and Crosbyby – went for the jugular on economic management, a move that will (more defensibly) follow from Turnbull this time.
He added: "I think the game is defensibly the best, but if it makes people debate it, that's fine.
