  The fact that different theorists thus ultimately employ different ideas about what a moral disagreement amounts to may make one suspect that they risk talking past each other when discussing further questions, such as how much disagreement there is and how it is to be explained. However, note that the disputes in question take place at a quite theoretical level and are consistent with significant overlap regarding what counts as a paradigm case of moral disagreement and about the types of behavior such disagreements typically manifest itself in. For example, both realists, non-cognitivists and others can agree that moral disagreements are typically accompanied with clashes of desires and that they are often causally rooted in conflicts of non-moral belief (for example regarding the consequences of the actions). That overlap helps to secure a shared subject matter for discussions about (e.g.) how much disagreement there is.