Such debates will not end our political disagreements, but they will set much higher standards of discussion, requiring fuller explanations of positions and even modifications to make them more defensible.
Group E is located to the west of Group C. Group E is largely surrounded by steep ravines; the inhabitants of the city cut the cliffs to make them steeper and more defensible, and reinforced them with a retaining wall.
"This makes them an even more compelling story," says Vogel. "Andromedia has some good technology, which adds personalization and site management tools to Macromedias business, and this broadens them more into the applications space, which is more defensible".
The good news for policy-makers is that a wide range of tools and approaches are available which may help them make more defensible decisions.
That alone does not make it defensible.
As archon, he sponsored the first public works destined to make the defensible rocky bays of Piraeus, five miles from Athens, into harbours, replacing the nearer but unprotected beaches of Phaleron.
Is there any justification for what the CIA euphemistically calls "enhanced interrogation techniques", meaning torture, as routinely practised at Guantanamo Bay? Waterboarding, once practicised by the Spanish Inquisition, has yielded information that has saved innocent lives: does that make it defensible?
Of course, nothing changes until the league, its players and the mayhem-loving faction of its fans realize heads are decidedly more fragile and valuable than Wiffle balls and just because some people find the barbarism entertaining doesn't make it defensible.
Give yourself that opportunity to dream, but make it real, make it defensible.
