Fr. Gregory Pine

So you're going to be able to find something with anyone with whom you speak.

It's like, why aren't you killing me right now?

Why aren't you killing me right now?

It's because I'd go to jail.

Okay, perfect.

So I think that we can typically find some common ground with our interlocutor as to the type of things which shouldn't be done.

Like let's say that it's a kind of shrill political conversation.

I think most people would agree like Holocaust shouldn't come back.

You know, like slavery.

Not all would agree, but most reasonable, all reasonable people would agree.

Let's say like 99% of people would agree.

You know, like this shouldn't come back.

That shouldn't come back.

The types of things which we agree represent a kind of atrocity in the case of the event and social progress that we recognize that corporately as representing an atrocity.

So just as soon as somebody admits that,

they're granting something after the manner of objectivity.

They might have a complicated philosophical theory, which gets them out of hard and firm commitments.

They might be like, oh no, that only applies on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Okay, whatever.

But I think that everyone admits at a certain level that we have some kind of objective access to the good.