It gave the school £1,250 to donate to charity and asked 13-year-old pupils to decide where the money should go.The children drafted reports championing the causes each preferred, argued their merits and finally cast votes to determine which charities received funding.
Conservatives prefer to argue that the answer lies in forcing people to pay more of their own medical costs.
What is more, defenders of suicide bombers -- "martyrs" would be the language they prefer -- argue that they have still not caused as many civilian casualties as the "collateral damage" of Israeli military actions.
But much as a historian who writes books might prefer to argue otherwise, it is harder to make the case that great leaders must be great scholars.
That poses a challenge to any who prefer to argue in terms of an agreed-upon set of facts and numbers, even accepting how limited and incomplete those numbers often are.
Might he not, perhaps, prefer to argue that the Fathers of the New American Coalition are "not all bad," and point out that, to be fair, there has been violence on both sides?
When it came time for the Russians to be evacuated to Russian army headquarters in Friestadt, Janovic already suffering the Major's distrust, could not explain that, as a deserter from the Russian army, he would prefer to argue his case before the Americans in Linz.
But he did say in the final version that "I do not doubt that a litigant in the position of respondents would much prefer to argue his case before a court none of whose members had expressed the views that I expressed about the relationship between surveillance and First Amendment rights while serving as an assistant attorney general".
Instead, they prefer to argue about ideal cases, where the theoretical issues can be clearly identified.
Each of these answers has sufficient problems such that one might well prefer to argue instead, (4) that the universe in fact exists necessarily.
