 A second hurdle is to find an answer to the inevitable question of authority, assuming that there are such general texts. If it is rational to conform one’s behavior and one’s choices to certain general texts, as deontology claims, it is always in point to demand the reasons making such texts authoritative for one’s decisions. Deferring one’s own best judgment to the judgment enshrined in some text is always prima facie paradoxical (see the entry on  authority)  and deontologists like everybody else need to justify such deference. Hopefully they can do so other than by reference to some person-like but omniscient Deity as the supposed source of such texts, because many deontologists cannot accept such theism (Moore 1995). Moreover, even for those with theistic commitments, they may prefer to join Kant’s insistence that ethics proceed from reason alone, even in a theistic world.