Nobody, aside from the hardline supporters of the Democratic party, still supports the now defunct moral relativism philosophy.

However, there is a sort of relativism, called Dormitory relativism by Don Herzog, that is very prominent and, I agree, good. While it is fundamentally different than moral relativism by still acknowledging moral absolutes, it has a practical form of relativism in it that basically helps us sleep better at night and teaches us how and when to talk about certain moral absolutes and when not to.

Don Herzog writes:

To be defensible — to stay crassly political and eschew any claims about ethics or justification or epistemology or ontology — dormitory relativism has to be an as-if, wink-nudge-nod collective understanding. Dormitory relativism doesn’t say, “there is no point arguing about these matters because there’s nothing there but personal preference.” That’s rotten philosophy. Dormitory relativism says, “because we don’t want to argue about these matters, let’s pretend that they’re mere personal preference.” Let’s pretend that morality, politics, religion, and more are just like the ice cream parlor, where we think there are no reasons or criticisms or arguments or justifications to exchange about flavor.

But of course it has its limitations too:

Dormitory relativism helps you get along amiably enough when you leave your homogeneous small town and head to the big bad city. It helps you sleep peacefully knowing that the unmarried couple down the hall are probably having sex in a position you find revolting, that too many Americans are smoking marijuana, and that millions of Americans don’t own a Bible and don’t even care that they don’t. But you can’t actually defend other people’s rights to those choices by arguing that “really” questions of value are all mere personal preference, although a surprising number of people have fallen for that dreadful argument. After all, if questions of value are really matters of preference, then the merits and proper sphere of toleration and autonomy are matters of preference, too. Instead you have to get serious and argue about autonomy and rights. In sorting out those matters, dormitory relativism is useless.

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