Why Does Moral Relativism Fail?

What is moral relativism and does it make sense? Is truth objective? Is right and wrong the same for everyone? Or do can I decide what to do myself?
Megan Almon shares the self-defeating nature of moral relativism and ways we can engage in conversations about the worldview.
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[@nsp74]

nailed it

[@Chidds]

This is such a lazy critique of moral relativism. Not only is there a false equivocation going on, but a concept is being held to account for the supposed inconsistencies of some who claim to be moral relativists. What is missed, from this critique is a deeper understanding of what individual morality can look like. It is falsely assumed that moral relativists must accept the morality of others, but that is simply not the case. Moral relativism is a belief about how morality plays out, not one's approach to it.

[@georgedoyle2487]

“About how morality plays out”
Sorry but the claim that relativism, that is moral subjectivism is just about how “morality plays out” is nothing more substantive than prevarication and equivocation!!
When our pride usurps Truth we walk on the shifting sands of relativism, a narcissist and ego driven reality!!
Equally, the statement “there is not one standard of objective morality”, that is the statement there is not one standard of “Truth” or the statement that “all Truth and morality is relative and subjective” is ironically presented as one universal absolute standard of (objective morality and Truth). Thus it’s logical converse objective morality and Truth exists including an ultimate ontological ground of Truth, that is the absolute ontological ground of value!!
The fact is that relativism, that is a strictly reductive, materialism, atheism or philosophical naturalism reduces every element of absoluteness to relativity, that is it reduces morality and Truth itself to arbitrary, ad hoc gibberish while making a completely illogical exception in favor of this reduction itself. It’s a question begging fallacy and a special pleading fallacy of the highest degree lol!!
The fact is that it consists in asserting the claim that there is no absolute “Truth” as if this were absolute “Truth” itself? Oblivious to the irony of declaring it to be “absolutely” True that there is nothing but the relatively True!! It’s synonymous with saying that there is no language or writing that there is no writing!! Its synonymous with claiming that what you were ultimately “meaning” to say is that there is no ultimate “meaning”.
In fact, every idea is reduced to relativity, whether psychological, historical, or social; but the assertion undermines itself by the fact that it too presents itself as a psychological, historical, or social relativity. The assertion clearly contradicts itself if it is “true” and by contradicting itself logically proves thereby that it is totally false and is an atheistic nihilistic fantasy.
Its first absurdity lies in the fact that it is a logical fallacy, a (Special Pleading Fallacy). An implicit claim to be unique in escaping, as if by magic, from a relativity that is declared to be the only “absolute” possibility. It’s like believing that if you just screamed loud enough “there is no such thing as sound”!! then sound will cease to exist!!
Everyone has a right to believe what they want and everyone including theists have a right to find it totally ridiculous, nihilistic, fatalistic and self refuting….
“We should challenge the relativism that tells us there is no right or wrong, when every instinct of our mind knows it is not so, and is a mere excuse to allow us to indulge in what we believe we can get away with. A world without values quickly becomes a world without value.” (Johnathan Sacks).
Sorry but the person who actually claims that “there is no such thing as Truth”, or that all morality and Truth is 'merely relative,' that is just arbitrary subjective preference, arbitrary subjective taste, just an arbitrary social construct, just arbitrary cultural relativism, that is as arbitrary as the fact that we evolved five fingers instead of six, that person is asking you not to believe him. So don’t!! Deconstruction deconstructs itself, and disappears up its own behind, leaving only a disembodied smile and a faint smell of sulphur.
As I pointed out already when our pride usurps Truth we walk on the shifting sands of relativism, a narcissist and ego driven reality!!