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"Wrong" meaning what?
Would I prefer the people around me not be bloodthirsty? Yes, I would prefer that.
Can people reason that bloodthirst is not a good preference to have...?
Even if there's no such thing as objective right and wrong, they might easily be able to reason that being bloodthirsty is not in their best selfish interest.
If there's no right or wrong, why does that matter?
I don't understand the question, nor why you singled out that fragment.
When you say "Even if there's no such thing as objective right and wrong" you're still implicitly presuming a default morality, namely ethical egoism.
For me, now, it isn't practical. In other circumstances it would be. It need not ever be a terminal goal but it could be an instrumental goal built in deeply.