To which Coldplay might reasonably respond: yeah, smartarse, and it's also the kind of nondescript piano ballad that has shifted us 80m albums.
Still, he might reasonably respond that no one buys a Coldplay album in the hope of finding brilliantly incisive lyrics, or indeed an accurate portrayal of untamable adolescent rebellion.
The police killing of a man mistakenly thought to be linked to the London terror attacks has prompted a huge political controversy, but legally rests on one crucial question: were police reasonably responding to what they saw as a threat to the public?
An America of mandated conservation, imposing taxes (at meaningful levels) on the full panoply of emitters and related culprits (family cars, fast food, tract houses and discount boxes in cornfields) would set a standard to which the rest of the world might reasonably respond.
The lawsuit, filed Friday in Delaware Chancery Court by Prickett, Jones & Elliott on behalf of Take-Two shareholder Patrick Solomon, alleges that the moves including the "outright rejection of EA's offers and failure to negotiate", represent a failure to "reasonably respond" and "maximize shareholder value".
Those already sympathetic to non-hedonist pluralism about value, however, can reasonably respond with some scepticism to explanatory arguments for hedonism.
"To all of which, a lesser being such as myself might reasonably have responded: why not write your own bloody novel?
Kenneth S. Bakst, the managing member of Traditional Links, said in a statement, "The environmentalists made reasonable requests and we responded reasonably".
The report (pdf) concludes that, although the system responded reasonably well to to the winter storms, more needs to be done.
Already this year unemployment has shot up by 750,000 to 2.8m, or 12.3% of the workforce.After initially downplaying it, Mr Zapatero has responded reasonably effectively to the slowdown.
