But, in a country where the previous President's lies about consensual adulterous relations were considered ground for impeachment, truthtelling about the gravest affair of state — the waging of war — must stand as a paramount value.
Indeed, many Mohists seem to have concluded that, since social order was a paramount value and gratuitous warfare was wrong, they had a duty to assist victims of aggression.
Moreover, this notion is one that tends toward consensus, because conservatives too are likely to accept the paramount value of the individual.
If there is one overriding commitment shared by all the classical republicans, it is clearly their commitment to the paramount value of political liberty.
However, one critical element seems to be missing too often in these discussions: the paramount value of the First Amendment and of respecting others' free speech rights.
This ability to form, revise, and pursue conceptions of a worthwhile life is taken to be of paramount value, the exclusive source of human dignity, and thereby the basis of human rights (Griffin 2008 27 444).
The reason a life of learning is of paramount value is that it allows one to form reasons for what we observe beyond our obvious assumptions.
Hence, specific and sensitive screening programs and identification of targets that are central to ovarian pathogenesis are of paramount value in decreasing the mortality of ovarian cancer.
With a burgeoning baby boomer cohort, cognitive training programs are of paramount value, but only if researchers can ensure that trainees are motivated to comply with the intervention requirements.
"We believe that profiting from these industries conflicts with the paramount social value of avoiding significant and permanent degradation of our planet that, if left unchecked, will adversely affect all of us, personally and as an institution," the petition said.
