ABSTRACT
In this chapter I offer one argument: Any moral theory that specifies at least one moral desideratum as its basis will face criticisms similar to justice-based criticisms of consequentialism. Not all of these justicebased criticisms are damaging, but some are. I do not expect all readers to agree with me about which sorts of cases are most troublesome; rather I hope to show that there is another vast area of principled disagreement over normative ethics. Within the dialectic of this book this chapter shows a second issue in which our moral intuitions disagree so dramatically that they further weaken the case for postulating metaethically objective moral truths. I present the premises and conclusions of the argument as numbered steps (1) through (13).
