For Benedict, ethical behavior is just the habits we call “good.” There are no objective, universal ethical norms; there are only the habits we call our ethics. Those habits are relative; they differ in every society. Benedict was right about one thing—we live in a morally relativistic world. What does that mean? First, it means that if relativism is true, then the study of ethics and moral reasoning is merely a quaint search for dusty, old ideas that no one really believes any longer, a little like