To say that someone has a right, of whatever sort, is to speak either of or within some legal or moral system: our rejection of objective values carr… - J. L. Mackie

We want people to see it as not only legitimate but right and proper that they should pursue what they see as their own well-being.

Mutual toleration might be easier to achieve if groups could realize that the ideals which determine their moralities in the broad sense are just that, the ideals of those who adhere to them, not objective values which impose requirements on all alike.

It is simply an error, though no doubt an attractive and inspiring one, to suppose that there is one evil — capitalism, say, or colonialism — the destruction of which would make everything in the garden lovely.