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You misunderstand moral relativism. Moral relativists can have moral beliefs. They simply recognise that these are their own (very strongly held) opinions, rat

You misunderstand moral relativism. Moral relativists can have moral beliefs. They simply recognise that these are their own (very strongly held) opinions, rather than a reference to a universal moral code (like say, the Ten Commandments)

xpe 3y ago
There are flaws in both my writing and the comment that critiques it. There are various flavors of moral relativism. My comment criticizes one flavor of moral relativism without specifically identifying that I was criticizing meta-ethical relativism. I rewrote it in a sub-comment. > Descriptive moral relativism holds only that people do, in fact, disagree fundamentally about what is moral, with no judgment being expressed on the desirability of this. > Meta-ethical moral relativism holds that in such disagreements, nobody is objectively right or wrong. > Normative moral relativism holds that because nobody is right or wrong, everyone ought to tolerate the behavior of others even when large disagreements about morality exist. > Said concepts of the different intellectual movements involve considerable nuance and aren't absolute descriptions. Quotes from Wikipedia [1], even though I prefer the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy [2] for more detailed explanations. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_relativism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_relativism [2] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-relativism/#ForArg https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-relativism/#ForArg