We either reject the information out of hand (flight) or argue vociferously against it (fight).
If we can become more conscious about the frameworks we function within, we can do ore to reshape them or argue for their demise.
While some may get more or less than in previous years - or would argue that the formula should be changed - broadly speaking this year's budget can be described as a standstill budget.
Some of those characters argue or carp in give-and-take as sharp as a newly stropped tonsorial tool.
But no matter what we argue or where we stand, we have always held certain beliefs as Americans.
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Macro funds are more demanding because they follow, or one might argue, create opportunity, like the U.S.-based funds that bet against the housing bubble.
By focusing subsidies and tax breaks on a set of industries or companies, argue opponents, governments open themselves up to being captured by these firms.
There are a number of communities which have fostered this sort of growth, from Team Liquid to SoloMid to Reddit, where players and fans can come together to discuss the latest news from the scene, or of course argue with each other, a staple of any sports conversation.
Or, some might argue, a cleaner solution would be to physically separate the retail bank and investment bank - or to put it in starker terms, to break up Barclays.
Michael Jackson's billion or so fans may argue that Conrad Murray deserves the hardest time possible.
You can argue whether or not that has any significance in the tech world, or the history of inventions.
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Thus the distinction is flawed and should be revised or dropped, they argue.
Sander Greenland, a statistician at the University of California, Los Angeles, says the data are "ambiguous" and can be spun either to argue for or against a risk of cancer death.
There are also other languages around: Manx, on the Isle of Man, a form of Norse (not spoken natively any more), Lallans, or Lowland Scots many argue is a separate language rather than the creole others argue it is.
Large national or international actuarial firms argue that when plan sponsors hire smaller actuarial and investment consulting firms, they are effectively agreeing to a limitation of liability because a significant error by a smaller, thinly capitalized firm would result in its demise.
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But if you consider the core conservative position that race should not matter or does not matter, if you argue from a policy standpoint that race does not matter or should not matter, how can you justify considering race?
You have exactly 77 hours to argue over whether or not these are for real.
As one sad example, pundits and politicians argue whether inflation or inflation describes the current economic reality.
You could argue that one or two smaller entities within the Samsung group had outperformed the huge Electronics flagship.
You could argue one way or the other whether task list belongs in there, but the link between email, address book, and calendar is extremely tight.
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The researchers said they don't know whether a weight difference caused couples to argue more, or whether conflict caused one partner to eat more and become overweight.
From Rasputin's point of view, the more unprincipled and incompetent the men who ran Russia, the better: they were less likely to argue back, or to have ideas of their own.
And we can argue about that, we can argue about whether or not the top 2 percent of taxpayers in America deserve another tax cut as part of the election, and then that can be decided by the election.
Academics can argue whether dividends or buybacks are the better method of returning capital, Spellman says, but given the current hunger for yield he thinks it would have been really interesting if Cook had opted to double the dividend rather than just a 15% increase.
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Some might argue that no investigation or research would have uncovered the complex, deliberate fraud involved in an Enron.
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The one where we argue about how close or not-so-close he is, or whether or not it's reasonable or delusional to expect he breaks Jack Nicklaus's record of 18 majors.
"If you look at the results last cycle it's hard to argue that being early or being big was much of an advantage, " says Alex Conant, an adviser to former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty.
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