It proceeds ethnographically when the reasons traded back and forth and the differences explored in debate are taken seriously: not dismissed as irrational, impossible, or inhuman, not domesticated by false familiarity, not disregarded by our moral narcissism.19 It involves a certain mixture of empathy and reserve, a certain ''imaginative entry into (and admittance of) an alien turn of mind” that is (nevertheless) tempered by the recognition that one cannot embrace all that one might come to grasp and respect.20 And it requires a certain willingness to understand the reasons internal to a different frame of mind and to follow an argument in its conceptual vernacular.21