Why suspicion? Because each moral virtue regards some good, some end that its actions seek, and because different specifications of that good will generate competing, often incompatible, examples of that virtue, of candidates for moral perfection. Notice the fallout. A society that disagrees about the goods that ought to be known, loved, and pursued in the best kind of life and that proceeds with its affairs nevertheless will not assume substantial agreement about the determinate character of specific virtues, or rather it ought not. So too it must resist every ''tendency to offer ethical instruction,” every desire to cultivate a collection of virtues that might enable its citizens to choose and live well.53