ABSTRACT
The main thrust of Charles Mills's critique of my justification of morality was presented (I'm not kidding!) thirteen years ago at an American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, Author Meets Critics Session on 1998 book, Justice for Here and Now. Mills was criticizing author's argument from rationality to morality, and then as now, he was doing it by developing the contrasting notions of lexical and scalar egoism. At the heart of Mills's critique of author's justification for morality is his claim to have discovered a new type of egoism, scalar egoism that is immune from my rationality to morality argument. The question is how does author's argument from rationality to morality works against objectionable group moralities like racism, sexism, and naturism? Author's expectation was that the author of Reasonably Viciouswould tries to counter my argument from rationality to morality with arguments from her book that attempt to show that vicious people, in fact, can be quite reasonable.
