But we do think that such a person is possible, and if we are to take the amoralist challenge seriously, we must attempt to explain why the amoralist should care about morality.

'Do! pray do! I shall be the most miserable of men if you don't. You cannot be so cruel as to deny me a favour so easily granted and yet so highly prized!' pleaded he as ardently as if his life depended on it.

Addressing this cavalier Western attitude, Dr. Muniini K. Mulera warned self-righteous moralists informed by hindsight not to ask how anyone could be so gullible. Labelling these people stupid nut-heads will not do, he wrote in the Monitor.

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