The NT makes an ambitious and worthwhile argument: the evidence of a misaligned system of food production is evident at almost every stage – in polluted watercourses and compacted land, in horsemeat passed off as beef and foreign produce repackaged and traded as British, in gangmasters cruelly exploiting migrant labour, and the processing industry cheating on quality.
The backlash was nearly universal and intense, but isn't there a worthwhile argument to be made for encouraging adults to challenge themselves to read books written for mature readers?
Very little worthwhile commentary or argument is produced even on the rare occasions when things are kept civil.
Further, considering the lack of randomly sampled data in this area, it seems worthwhile to emphasize the argument made by Couper and Miller [ 29] according to which it is better not to treat survey quality as an absolute, but to evaluate quality relative to other features, such as the availability of better data, the research design, and the stated goals of the survey.
Scott Turow, the lawyer and author, who is a former member of Mr. Ryan's Commission on Capital Punishment, said, "I used to think that cost arguments were not worthwhile, because you can't get to them without resolving the issue of whether the death penalty is actually deterrence.
It can lead to deep tolerance: the allowance "that those with whom you disagree are people whom it is worthwhile to approach with rational arguments" (McKim 2001, 178) And personal tolerance of this sort, we are told, may well lead to a more tolerant and open society that will permit and even encourage a diversity of opinion on all issues, including opinions on religious matters.
It would not be worthwhile extending this debate, except for the fact that many people - including at least one Democratic Presidential candidate - appear to take the torture advocacy argument seriously.
It may be worthwhile to note that Clifford's argument here is itself a moral pragmatic argument.
They could either strengthen or weaken my arguments, or lead to worthwhile improvements in them.
