 The word “recognition” suggests that the “subjectivity of ethics” is true, and thus that there is no such thing as a non-natural property of goodness. But setting the success-word to one side, it might be the case that we would be better off believing in the subjectivity of ethics since believing in objective values leads to persecution, punishment, cruelty and moral reprobation. It might pay in terms of peace, love and understanding if people came to believe Russell’s brand of emotivism. But the fact that a belief pays, in some sense, does not make it true, as Russell himself was at pains to point out (see Philosophical Essays, chs. iv &amp; v). So even if we would be better off believing that there were no objective values (a thesis Russell later came to doubt), this does not prove that there are no such things.