However, and this is an evident truth, unprecedented and clearly orchestrated attempts were made to discredit our efforts to organise and host the Olympics.
Hume was downright dismissive of the animal mind skeptics when he wrote "Next to the ridicule of denying an evident truth, is that of taking much pains to defend it; and no truth appears to me more evident than that beasts are endowed with thought and reason as well as man.
He knew that even a self evident truth was not self executing; that blood drawn by the lash was an affront to our ideals; that blood drawn by the sword was in painful service to those same ideals.
If you find some truth like Z which is an axiom or self evident truth requiring no proof you're actually getting some where, but if you've broken down the philosophy of X by A into: (Q+U +Z or X, Or X to be true all of it's constituent parts need to be true, like a healthy person must be by definition made up of healthy parts or else he would be a lame man.
This would require these governments first to acknowledge a basic and ever-more evident truth of the human condition, which is that in dealing with nature's fury, no nation is an island.
And woe betide anyone foolish enough to point out the evident truth that they're wrong.
During the debate over the Kansas Nebraska Act in 1853, for example, Senator John Pettit of Indiana argued that "all men are created equal", rather than a "self-evident truth", was a "self-evident lie".
In other words, while it was a self-evident truth that everyone had a right to good health, that health was not in jeopardy because of spiraling medical costs, corporate greed, or complex bureaucracy.
On the other hand, what's painfully clear to some seems questionable to others; that's why experts perform research and pile evidence about seemingly evident truths, in a determined effort to gather facts.
It is a self-evident truth that human trafficking is a flagrant violation of human rights, one that indiscriminately strips its victims of confidence and dignity, and re-injects within them pain, fear and shame.
It is the argument of the SNP and others that independence is the natural condition of Scotland, that it is a "self-evident truth" (to borrow, as they did, a phrase from another statement of independence), that the people of Scotland are best placed to determine the political, economic and social future of Scotland.
