She makes a strong case that it leads directly to narcissism, or to the preoccupation with self; separatism, or loss of a sense of community and the eradication of what Aristotle called "civic virtue"; emotivism, or the rejection of all truth and value in the name of "feelings"; and cynicism, or the view that nothing really matters.

It isn't so much that we should all agree, by no means, but that we increasingly lack the means whereby we can disagree robustly because those who most strenuously adhere to the epistemology MacIntyre associates with the liberal establishmentarians - emotivism, subjectivism, utilitarianism - refuse to recognize their own epistemological commitments.

Hume is not arguing for moral irrationalism or emotivism.