... the more famous proponents of this later view, not to mention more scathing in appraisal, is Bernard Williams. In "Morality: An Introduction to Ethics" (1972), Williams outlines his philosophical objection to moral relativism, combining this with a scarcely disguised distain for the potential consequences of its application, and therefore the very concept itself. Using language such as "heresy", "vulgar" and "unregenerate" in the first paragraph of his commentary (p34), seems to set this scornful tone beyond all doubt. So why then should moral relativism arouse such passionate opposition, based as it is on an attempt to prevent elitist and discriminatory interference in foreign cultures? Interference which led, for example, to the cultural re-education of North American Indian children after the massacre of the "battle" of Wounded Knee, or indeed to Aid to African nations, to combat the modern scourge of aids, being based upon Christian moral values such as sexual ...

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