Misusing the Inaction Argument

But that is no justification for inaction.

The Price of Inaction

The inaction argument makes us spend vast resources on policies that will do virtually nothing to deal with climate change, thereby diverting those resources from policies that could actually make an impact.

58. Is assistance facilitating political inaction?

Democracy in Inaction at the World Bank

But for the sake of argument, okay.

An excellent argument for never visiting Providence.

Passive tolerance to evil through inaction or indifference.

But that can't be an excuse for inaction. Surely, we can do better than this.

Calamity can still be averted if the costs of inaction escalate steadily. The worst problems, however, are those with inaction costs that remain invisible for a long time, but increase suddenly and explosively.

SAN JOSÉ, COSTA RICA One commonly repeated argument for doing something about climate change sounds compelling, but turns out to be almost fraudulent. It is based on comparing the cost of action with the cost of inaction, and almost every major politician in the world uses it.

The EU s argument is similar to advising a man with a gangrenous leg that paying 50,000 for an aspirin is a good deal because the cost compares favorably to the cost of inaction, which is losing the leg. Of course, the aspirin doesn t prevent that outcome.

64. It was mentioned that in international circumstances inaction could sometimes occur and be tolerated where in similar national situations inaction would be unacceptable.

We had an argument. A silly argument, you know.

Let us therefore be realistic and not make the absence of consensus an excuse for inaction.

Slovakia does not consider inaction to be an answer.

Furthermore, the term conduct encompassed both action and inaction acquiescence for example, was regarded as an act.

Some provisions still gave cause for doubt and argument.

All right, kid. I'm not looking for an argument.

Argument swapping

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Argument hints

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No argument.

Oh, argument.

The Administration should draw lessons from that experience and hold managers accountable for their inaction or delayed action.

Political and philosophical differences about the nature of terrorism must not be used as an excuse for inaction.

This is the typecast argument for your pointer, e.g. myresource .

Support for this third argument was added in PHP 4.1.0.

Path two, you become guilty of the evil of passive inaction.

Argument Conversion Functions

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No argument there.

Friendly little argument.

There's no argument.

There is argument.

But that is not in any sense an argument for complacency.

No argument is required.

His argument is rational.

Your argument is stupid.