hell’s handmaiden

Honestly, it is the first round of freshman, mostly, college papers I’ve seen in years. The subject is relativism. Of the papers I’ve seen so far, easily one in ten argue…

No.

Much too generous.

Start over.

Of the papers I’ve seen so far easily one in ten contains assertions in support of ethical relativism. Some of them contain quite strong assertions in favor of it. What is even more bizarre is that most of these defenders of relativism defend individual relativism, not cultural, and most tow the same basic line– that we can’t decide who is right or wrong so we just act how we feel like and, effectively, settle things by force.