I've also noticed that in general whenever people sit around talking about one thing to people who agree with them for too long, no matter how intelligent and considered they are, in time things get weird. In Brandeis this seems to happen a lot with Judaism and Israel -- it's so great to be surrounded by people who share your interests and perspectives that you get wrapped up in the threads and end up seeing the world solely through that lens, and losing track of how anyone else could reasonably disagree. Which can get pretty scary even when the fundamental ideas involved are not unreasonable. No matter what you think about the absoluteness or relativity of morality, the world's a bigger place than that.