Examples No one will take advice, but everyone will take money. Therefore, money is better than advice. One kind of decision people make about events or behaviors is an evaluative one. All nuclear reactors pose some risk of accident due to the fact that they are very complex technological devices and all such devices are susceptible to breakdown at some point. Since freedom and well-being are the necessary conditions of action and successful action in general, every agent must regard these conditions as necessary goods for himself, since without them he would not be able to act for any of his purposes, either at all or with general chances of success.
Murder is morally wrong.
This being the case, it follows that abortion is morally wrong. Now the highest good is sought for it's own sake and not for the sake of something else. Therefore, wealth is not the highest good in life. The defining feature of the State is authority. The defining feature of the human being is autonomy.