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I find the majority of intellectually leaning people tend towards embracing moral relativism and aesthetic relativism. But even those people act morally and arrive at similar base aesthetic judgements. The pattern indeed seems (to me) to be that, in both morality and aesthetics, there are basic truths and then there is a huge amount of cultural and personal variation. But the existence of variation does not negate the foundational truths. Here are a couple of examples of how this performative contradiction is an indication that these foundational truths are at the very least believed in by humans no matter what they are saying:
Would love to hear your thoughts on that especially if you consider yourself a moral relativist.
Seems to me that most people understand the difference between good and evil, and most people prefer good to evil, but we have a fashion where good is considered low-status, so many people are ashamed to admit their preferences publicly.
It's probably some mix of signalling and counter-signalling. On the signalling side, powerful people are often evil, or at least indifferent towards good and evil. By pretending that I don't care about good, I am making myself appear more powerful. On the counter-signalling side, any (morally sane) idiot can say that good is better that evil; I display my sophistication by expressing a different opinion.