a basic assumption of our modern cultural imagination: there is little or no moral structure to human nature. To be human is merely to be an intentional thinking agent. What we think and what we do is our business, as we are not answerable to any higher power or even to the authority of our own bodies. We can be whoever we want to be and act however we want to act. Morality, if it features at all, is something that is contextually determined. For example, did that person consent to the sexual act in which the two of us engaged? The act itself has no moral significance beyond that.
