counterargument

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In our era of scarce resources, wrenching cycles of flood and drought and painful cost-benefit calculations, every argument and counterargument for flooding the valley echoes even louder.

From Los Angeles Times

This counterargument is starting already, with ridiculous claims to confuse the narrative, such as that SVB’s problem was that it was too left-wing.

From Los Angeles Times

The counterarguments defending technology tend to have two big weaknesses.

From New York Times

The governor’s counterargument, beginning with a Saturday-morning event in Commerce, centered on his efforts to boost workplace protections for healthcare and service employees during the pandemic’s most dangerous days.

From Los Angeles Times

A better counterargument is to concede that while other interventions might have been justified, covid-19 poses too small a threat to the vaccinated to justify the intrusion.

From Washington Post