If there is a dilemma, it need not involve conflicting values, but rather conflicting obligations that arise from the same consideration.
"As critical thinkers, we can see how liberty and equality are sometimes conflicting values.
Like all great art, it requires forging seemingly conflicting values into a common whole.
Whether or not they are in some sense "tribal", conflicting values go with being human.
"These are moments when there's a clash between two conflicting values connected to masculinity," said Michael S. Kimmel, a sociologist at State University of New York at Stony Brook and author of "The Gendered Society".
But the Constitution often involves conflicting values — freedom of speech vs. national security, free exercise of religion vs. no establishment of religion.
Parental objections to vaccines highlight the fundamental ethical dilemma inherent in all public health initiatives: the often conflicting values of seeking better societal health and preserving individual liberties.
U.S.-China mutual trust declined after 1989 because of conflicting values over human rights; trust improved after 2001 because both sides valued a stable, free trade order.
This unease was a war of conflicting values: empire or democracy, birthright privilege or rugged individualism, state-imposed religious orthodoxy or confessional freedom?
On foreign policy, Mr Clinton denied that Mr Kerry would be soft on terrorism merely because he is a multilateralist: "strength and wisdom are not conflicting values".
The storyteller in Genesis assumes a world of conflicting values, and he makes the point that divine authority backs self-control and brotherhood but punishes jealousy and violence.
