So is no set of concerns better than any other? Certainly they are. But their superiority does not lie in conformity to an independent normative order. Their superiority lies in the ways of life embodying them. A set of concerns that leads to lives that are loyal, friendly, grateful, prudent, sympathetic, fair is indeed superior to one that leads to lives that are treacherous, suspicious, malicious, careless, hard-hearted, unjust.
