<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[The Dish]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://dish.andrewsullivan.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Andrew Sullivan]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://dish.andrewsullivan.com/author/sullydish/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Science And The Meaning Of Life,&nbsp;Ctd]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>Freddie DeBoer <a href="http://lhote.blogspot.com/2010/03/commenter-reading-comprehension.html">clarifies</a> his post:</p><blockquote><p>Morality, to my lights, is best thought of as an agreement between people, which is therefore never certain, timeless, or transcendent. I think it is to our practical benefit to act as though there is no moral value that transcends limited human agreement. Which means, yes, I am incapable of saying that the Taliban is objectively or certainly of inferior moral value to the Dalai Llama. And if you&#39;d like to haul out the high school debating team tactic, no, I can&#39;t say that Hitler, the Holocaust or Nazism are permanently, objectively and non-contingently evil in some transcendent way.]]></html></oembed>