 Here and elsewhere, MMP touched a nerve with the philosophers she targeted. One reason for this was the rather dismissive tone she took in some of her criticisms. Another is her rich use of irony. In addition to criticizing her contemporaries, she brusquely and perhaps uncharitably attacks Butler, Hume, Kant, Bentham, and Mill. One might sometimes guess that Anscombe is complaining about her colleagues because they favor new radical ideas, preferring philosophy that leaves everything in its place. But in fact she criticizes them on the grounds that the standards from which they begin are, in practice, the ones that happen to be current in their own society, and so modern moral philosophers wind up being very conventional. This was also the thrust of her BBC radio lecture “Does Oxford Moral Philosophy Corrupt the Youth?”, which she answered in the negative, on the grounds that English culture was already corrupt, and contemporary moral philosophy merely reflected rather than generated or opposed this turpitude.