V. Foundations for Moral Relativism

I am not going to argue for moral relativism. The case for moral relativism is not an argument; it’s a pair of observations. The first observation is that people live and have lived by mutually incompatible moral norms. The second observation is that no one has ever succeeded in showing any one set of norms to be universally valid. These observations do not prove that there is no universally valid morality, but they do lead us to wonder: If there weren’t a universally valid morality, would th..