 The general argumentative strategy has two elements. The first element defends ethical supervenience as a plausible generalization from cases. Thus, consider our orienting case of the embezzling bank manager. This case provides us with a specific ethical supervenience thesis: it suggests that the ethical quality of the manager’s action cannot vary without something else varying as well (compare Horgan and Timmons 1992, 226 on specific supervenience facts). Next, notice that there is nothing special in this respect about the bank manager case: we can identify specific supervenience facts about anything from genocide to insulting your neighbor’s hat. Each such fact is constituted by an interesting necessary connection between ethical properties and some base properties. It is theoretically unattractive to rest satisfied with a long list of such necessary connections. Instead, we should look for a single thesis that unifies all of these specific theses into a single pattern. This pattern can be captured by a general ethical supervenience thesis such as Initial (compare McPherson 2012, 211).