A culture of disagreement

"The most striking feature of contemporary moral utterance is that so much of it is used to express disagreements; and the most striking feature of the debates in which these disagreements are expressed is their interminable character. I do not mean by this just that such debates go on and on and on - although they do - but also that they apparently find no terminus. There seems to be no rational way of securing moral agreement in our culture."

-- Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue: A study in moral theory (quoted in Paul Lample's Revelation and Social Reality)