The variety of experiences is accompanied by a variety of agendas, and-put more charitably-a variety of priorities.
Or, less charitably, they could be a matter of simple, unreasoning conformity.
The hand may seem to teach the heart, but it could be an illusion of adverse selection whereby the more charitable behave more charitably.
Perhaps all this means we should look more charitably upon some noncommunicants.
Nevertheless, while it may have elements of contradiction and inconsistency, we should attempt to read it as charitably as possible, assuming he wants to present a sustained and unified argument.
Devlin is most charitably interpreted as presenting an argument to justify the legal enforcement of morality according to which it protects society from harm.
The inclusion of domain-specific objects within messages can be considered either to be semantically incoherent or (more charitably) as representing an object-oriented encoding of values, propositions and definite descriptions.
We may charitably entertain a pious hope that even political partisans will be occasionally open to conviction and will not be altogether deaf to argument.