| But what we did have in common was a dislike of soppy, sloppy liberalism, the idea that there are no moral absolutes. |
| On the other hand, just as comparing intrinsic qualities is subjectively unrealistic, comparing absolutes is a total waste. |
| As in the abortion debate, a little awareness of ethics will make us mistrustful of sound-bite-sized absolutes. |
| Most ablative absolutes are best translated with clauses introduced by when, although, since, or if. |
| The value and rightness of knowledge are not empirical absolutes, and the benefit of truth does not fit everyone the same. |
| Good and evil are to be defined as absolutes on religious authority, admitting of neither critical judgement nor reduction. |
