But there is something coarse and brutish about the public forum in America these days that undermines the moral footing and pulls those objecting to the abuse of prisoners down to low arguments about whether it works.
Stocks will lose value because by this point in the geriatric bull market, the chief element supporting them is the fact that rates are low – the argument in their favor is a relative one rather than an absolute one, that stocks are alluring in their own right.
Overall, this landscape strikes me as quite bullish in its implications and provides a strong rebuttal to the "low VIX/complacency" argument that's still out there.
Yet, this "low dose" argument falls flat when we consider that we are exposed to many toxic chemicals from many products every day.
"In a sense it's a kind of low-stakes argument," Mr. Spence said.
While Professor Lessig's low-key argument reflected a narrower goal, it is nonetheless true that after losing in two lower federal courts, he managed to take the case further than most people expected.
And because part of his case is to have found international mega-wines wanting, and since their most energetic advocate is Robert Parker, this is also a low-key argument against the increasing global homogeneity imposed by Parker's vast influence.
The low-hanging argument is "a lack of definitions".
Enter the "solar hurts low-income people" argument, which claims that low-income people are paying higher bills to subsidize solar power they can't afford -- and thus advocates lawmakers should oppose it.
With surprisingly low inflation, the argument goes, workers were content with low nominal wage increases.
During the party conferences Labour and the Tories each used the same brutal, disingenuous techniques to win the argument – low blows aimed at inducing fear about their opponent's record followed by promises of more staff and better services built on a financial mirage.
