Moral Realitivism

Today, a particularly insidious obstacle to the task of education is the massive presence in our society and culture of that relativism which, recognizing nothing as definitive, leaves as the ultimate criterion only the self with its desires. And under the semblance of freedom it becomes a prison for each one, for it separates people from one another, locking each person into his or her own ego.

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You are right. There are however no laws in morals. If the golden rule was in fact a law, comparable to that of gravity, there would not be people who treat others in contradiction to how they want to be treated themselves. These people obviously exist. As a kid I once stole a candy bar. I do not want people to steal from me. I have now disproven the golden rule being a law that applies everywhere all the time.

By the golden rule I assume we all mean something similar to Kant's categorical imperative. I argue that this is relative to a desired outcome (possibly a society of equals), an thus a textbook example of morals being relative. For example: if I want to have more than everyone else it is not always in my interest to act as if my action could be made a universal law.