[Senator Bedfellow]

It can absent a priori leaps of faith about values.

I don't think "it can" is being advanced - I think it's rather "it must".

[Torie]

Sometimes going with the flow per inertia, and "parasiting" off the leaps of faithers (as I define it in a not necessarily religious sense), is enough, I guess, so "must" I think is indeed errant. Cheers.