We assume that our picture of how the world should be reflects not only our attitudes and desires, but also some transcendent morality. Thus, we feel it is not enough to say that we are upset by how a friend has behaved – we must say that the friend has behaved badly, in some objective sense. In this piece, Joel Marks proposes that this impulse, though natural, is mistaken. There is no objective morality, Marks argues, and we would avoid considerable strife and conflict if we did not mistake our desires and preferences for a value-laden reality.