While equity issues on a worldwide basis such as the control over natural resources get increasingly addressed, the ultimate argument is the risks of GMOs or, ultimately, uncertainty and the absence of a proof of non-risk.
But perhaps the ultimate argument against the implicit promise of immortality has to do with a simple biological fact: if we were to rejuvenate our brains, Hayflick argues, we might lose the most precious thing we have: our sense of self.
They appear to provide the ultimate argument for protecting the natural environment: to do otherwise would detract from people's quality of life.
So, when one invokes the "ultimate argument for realism" and uses the success of contemporary molecular genetics to infer the approximate truth of the underlying ideas about heredity, one is not arrogantly denying the natural rationality of the Polynesians.
Perhaps most decisive was a line of reasoning that became known as "the ultimate argument for realism," which appeared in two major versions.
Last, ultimate, finis, end-of-the-line.
A different antirealist argument, presented by Laudan, attacks directly the "ultimate argument" for realism.
I met one guy who wrote quite a provocative thesis, but one that sort of made sense, where he said he thought some suicide bomber did it as a way of winning an ultimate argument about their identity.
Iran's ultimate argument is religion.
The argument of the refrigerator wakes me.
