"The philosophical ethics most in fashion, the standard ones, and even those that have a critical orientation with a claim to being postconventional in character, are in fact themselves the ethics of minorities (most emphatically of hegemonic, dominating minorities; those that own the resources, the words, the arguments, the capital, the armies) that frequently and quite cynically can ignore the victims, those most affected, who have been dominated and excluded from the "negotiating tables" of the ruling system and from the dominant communities of communication."