Americans sift through more moral dilemmas in a week than people in earlier, more settled societies struggled with in a lifetime. Culture wars sort us into moral tribes. And so on. Nothing is orthodox or unorthodox anymore. We are all fist-shaking schismatics.
Cultural pluralism gets wistful for certitudes.
Inside every fox, there's a hedgehog ranting. I cannot recall the last time I was tempted to violate the rights of a rat by eating it. You can get an argument going around that. A day or two ago, the Supreme Court decided that students in a public high school may not organize prayers at football games. The house divides bitterly on that one, of course.