They've come under indictment, but when the problem is so widespread they've decided that the only reasonable response is to begin enforcing a new set of rules, and let bygones be bygones. (michael-hudson.com)
If we believe the narrative, the only reasonable response is to seek the end of politics by one means or another. (firstthings.com)
I do not intend to close on an eristically apologetic note; i.e., «See, oh moderns, how even the greatest genius of our age saw that the only reasonable response to the human dilemma without Christ is despair.» (religion-online.org)