Selling him for around £20m seems preferable.
Stasis seems preferable to the turbulence of Ireland or Greece.
A link between both regions that ensures the operation of defence throughout Belgium seems preferable.
For some couples, a shaky relationship now seems preferable to divorce.
Death (the quick and self-induced variety) seems preferable to life (the slow-and-painful-slide variety).
Why stir the pot, he seems to imply, when blissful ignorance of the UK's role in the EU seems preferable?
Eventually for some people the weight of the tank becomes crushing and suicide seems preferable to life.
After describing life in an egg-laying battery, Dr. Nestle adds, "almost anything seems preferable to eating eggs produced in this fashion".
"Among these it seems preferable to support those that survived, transcended their suffering and continued their remarkable engagement for the transformation of society".
Another reason may be that the bar of suffering in Africa is so high that almost anything seems preferable to mass murder -- even inhuman encampments.
