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Tom,

Great topic, and I want to mull it over further before I jump in headfirst. That said, I would like to offer that the fundamental problem with moral relativism is that pretty much eliminates any basis for any type of normative judgement on behalf of competing moral systems (as you term it) and, more importantly, undermines the the proposition of moral relativism as the standard. I hope I didnt phrase that too awkwardly. I'll try to add more later.

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No, moral relativism (I don't like the term, I prefer inter-subjectivity) implies that we can't be lazy and simply assume one great moral "prime mover". There is no one source from which all moral right and wrong flow. There is no one law or calculator to which we can simply defer. It means that conversations about morality must be just that: conversations, between actors, about morality.

We can only hope that everyone involved is reasonable.