 There is something rather paradoxical about this, since Russell was firmly convinced of the rightness of his own anti-War activities: “When the War came, I felt as if I heard the voice of God. I knew it was my business to protest, however futile protest might be” (Autobiography II: 18). If there are no objective moral properties, there is no such thing as moral knowledge, which means that Russell cannot have literally known that he ought to protest. At best he could have known that he ought to protest given his values. But though he sometimes seems to talk as if it is objectively wrong to believe in objective values, Russell’s position is (or can be made to be) coherent. It might just be a fact that moral realists tend to be more intolerant and cruel than moral relativists and anti-realists. Hence those who dislike intolerance and cruelty have a reason for running down objectivity. As Russell himself put it,