The paper, therefore, questions the desirability of a policy designed at mitigating the child labor problem especially when it makes the poor families worse off.
Dylan questions whether one can really distinguish between right and wrong, and even questions the desirability of the principle of equality.
Contemporary work in the philosophy of science questions the desirability of conceptualising social interventions in terms of 'replication' across diverse contexts, arguing that "to draw causal inferences about a target population, which method is best depends case-by-case on what background knowledge we have" [ 94].
How this lane-straddling, high-end SUV got to be so flouncingly self-important and alarmist, I don't know, but a car can't just go around crying, "Thief!" Quite apart from anything else, it calls into question the desirability of its driver's neighbourhood, which could, if the word got out, have an unlooked-for depreciative effect on property prices.
Fortunately, the action is more streamlined after Act 1, but one can question the desirability of having Elsa's bed suspended above the stage, with her often in it, for much of the opera, even if it is arguably justified, both by the dream she narrates of the knight in shining armor who will save her and by a bed's presence in the bridal chamber she briefly shares with Lohengrin.
In contrast, Gary Becker and Casey Mulligan (2003), among others, question the desirability of introducing a broad-based consumption tax, which in their view would lead to substantial increases in federal spending.
Although informal enforcement of wide equal opportunity norms is possible, one might question the desirability of the ideals and the acceptability of their enforcement.
Drawing on case studies of Bush's workers' music and his Concert Piece for Cello and Piano (1936), I argue that Bush sought a connection between modernism and left-wing politics that questioned the desirability of individual expression.
Another strangeness: no one seems to question the desirability of erecting a Camelot II.
Some will question the desirability of such a state, seeing some intrinsic value in death; others will continue to believe that there are absolute boundaries to human ingenuity that preclude sustainability.
Many people have questioned the desirability of opening large tracts of land to livestock through the control of tse-tse and the possible consequences of land degradation.
