she enters a debate with her mental weaponry well-sharpened. Shesays that in any particular situation,"there's going to be at least onecorrect and an awful lot of incorrectways to act." She sees subjectivismas "a creeping disease". "Saysomething like, 'so you mean if youfelt like raping someone that wouldbe OK?' we would all be able toagree that rape is wrong, but aren'tthere less extreme examples thatpeople would disagree on? Isn'tvirtue in the eye of the beholder?"

    Kindness, honesty, courage, compassion…it is hard o find a disputable virtue.But the vices offer more scope. Whatabout greed? Most would say that'sa vice, but some say "greed is good"."That's rather different from sayingthat being greedy is the right wayor virtuous way to be. You won't get

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