ethics is not about other people

http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=661
"Another Way for Mr. Lincoln"

This article discusses a book that is ethics done about other people, in a way. The author argues that no reader is actually positioned to learn what appears to be the central moral lesson of the book. Rather, it presents a fantasy (in Diamond's sense) of what other people are like, and a picture of how to deal with them.