Re: Moral relativity
I think a lot of people confuse thinking "hey I'm open minded and tolerant of others" to mean that they think morality is all subjective. But then, isn't "being open minded and tolerant of others" a worthwhile moral principle? It's really that simple, imo.
"Everyone has different preferences," therefore your philosophy can not be looked at as being objectively good. Well, if my philosophy can be demonstrated to be the most tolerant of the fact that everyone has different preferences, then doesn't that become (for all intents and purposes other than maintaining an argument on the internet) "objectively" better than ones that don't.
When you phrase the question this way (referring to OP), it's clear everyone agrees that not every moral view is a worthy one just because someone holds it. Unless you answered "yes" here, you really should do away with entering the "but ultimately it's all subjective" into any of your arguments.
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