This topic is fun because it was almost the whole theme of this very blog. But eventually I realized I didn't want to soley write articles in this style. I explained the personal etymology of it in cooperation-greatest-value, which is linked below.
tl;dr when i was a highschool debater, a lot of argument cases were framed with something as "...the greatest value", and then you would use that structure to argue about whatever. It was pretty weird, but competative debate was often divorced from reality.
One thing I did learn though: you don't debate to convince your opponent. You debate to convince by-standers. That's what Abraham Lincoln did, and that's why my style of debate was named after him (and the guy he beat).