ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author approaches the topic of debunking arguments in ethics by focusing on two thoughts. The first thought is that while norms of truth and desirability often go together, that is not always the case. The second thought is that no one likes to be made a fool of. This chapter describes how these two thoughts, when suitably combined, help explain both the interest of debunking arguments in ethics and the widely shared response that such arguments will tend to be at best partly or locally successful.
