If the argument is that the evolution of the industrial mechanism that has provided prosperity for a healthy preponderance of the people (though not as many as the continent's prosperity might have suggested) has to be preserved, and so, as opposed to traditional notions of right and wrong, "what works is good" -- if that is the argument, then, even in this case, every given individual within such a society is morally obliged to exhaustively defend the presumptive validity of traditional notions of right and wrong.
