People often recommend relativism because they think that it will lead to tolerance. But if we cannot learn from one another what it is right to think and feel and do, then conversation between us will be pointless. Relativism of that sort isn't a way to encourage conversation; it's just a reason to fall silent.
Kwame Anthony Appiah
Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers
(New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2006), 31
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