Each half of the world laughs at the other half and both sink into foolishness. The wise work hard to become independent from their culture, historical context, and from any solid point of view. Tastes are as diverse as faces. Almost every opinion, every belief, every value system has strong advocates as well as opponents. What inspires one person repels another. What some love others loath. Trying to impose one set of morals on many only makes things worse. For these reasons, we can to a certain extent ignore rebukes and disapproval—for every one who criticizes, another will praise. And for all approvals there will also be condemnations. Only the conclusions of the wise matter.