Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.
A lot of books, if you take them at face value, they're just not gonna work as films.
People take things at face value on social media. Earnestness is the assumption.
I don't take anything at face value. I always look for the reasons people are the way they are.
I think when two people get together, their past is their past. Their reputations are reputations. You can only take someone the way you find them... on face value.