yikes the quotemarks in my (3) are breakdancin every whichway aren't they

3: by "relativists", some people seem to mean "those guys who are too complacently or vaingloriously superior, and/or cowardly, to take a stand on what they believe" or "those guys who argue that the other guy may have a point" even when the "other guy" is some kind of crusading n4zi or similar

(bah i hate trying to characterise bad arguments -- it always feels like i'm loading the dice or letting them off the hook)