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.

The lights went out.

'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.

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.