The argument is airtight, inescapable, and cunningly faux-naïf.
When all the invention and pettifogging arguments are finished, the inescapable fact is that Israel has been colonizing the occupied territories.
Two further arguments make this conclusion inescapable.
The argument seems compelling, the logic inescapable.
Interrogating scarcity is thus congruent with (indeed exemplified by) Pogge's powerful argument that global responsibility is inescapable given the nature of historical and contemporary interconnections, as embodied in economic institutions as well as discrete policy choices.
The suspicion remains, with bodies like the Country Land & Business Association involved, that the argument is motivated by money – the inescapable margin that always exists between an acre of farmland and an acre of building land.
But recently, a number of philosophers, futurists, science-fiction writers, and technologists people who share a near-religious faith in technological progress—have come to believe that the simulation argument is not just plausible, but inescapable.
With their pointed arguments, though, this year's nominees also raise an inescapable question: Can they have any real political impact?
Despite all of the talking points and arguments, there is a hard reality, the proverbially inescapable elephant in the room--and yet it is an inanimate object of human construction.
