[P]erspectivalism appeals to students far more than any of the gibberish used to advance it. For it corresponds to their own deep disorientation, as they enter university with all their old certainties in disarray, and find themselves confronted on every side by a determined assault on the values and beliefs that their parents had wished to implant in them. It is a natural response for young people to retreat from conviction when conviction gives offence. A posture of total relativism recommends itself, since it leaves every belief, and every value, free-floating and foundationless. In these circumstances we can all agree, since we are agreeing about nothing. Rival worldviews are merely rival flavours imparted to the same diet of doubts.
(Roger Scruton, A Political Philosophy [London and New York: Continuum, 2006], 111)
