The idea of wildlife as a sacred and self-evident good was under pressure on other fronts.
That version of diversity, all brochures and optics, became safe and mainstream, a self-evident good, a way for institutions to show their capacity for evolution and enlightenment.
But they're not wrong: from the ethos of self-improvement to the supposedly self-evident good of American greatness, "excellence" is in the air.
The entire E.U. project was hailed as a self-evident good by a generation's worth of statesmen and intellectuals, and Euroskepticism was confined in many countries to the fringes of the left and right.
Many of the critics of an Iraqi war in the West also say that it will bring instability, implying that the stability of the Arab world is a self-evident good.
Three Percenters are preoccupied with survival and preservation, dealing with the evils they see in the here and now and operating on faith that once it is vanquished, commonsense and self-evident good will triumph.
For Thomas Jefferson, a truth he also held to be self evident was the joy from drinking good wine.
This is of course self evident.
"I think that's pretty self evident".
