Every parent who has read a fairy tale to a young son or daughter is familiar with what I venture to say is a universal refrain of childhood: “But is he a good person or a bad one?” or “Is she a good fairy or an evil fairy?” What stronger proof or assurance could we want that God and nature have endowed even the youngest human beings with a moral constitution that needs to be nurtured and cultivated? Yet our society embraces an anti-human trinity of utilitarianism, subjectivism, and relativism that denies the existence of a moral sense or moral law.
