TheAncientGeek comments on Beware the Nihilistic Failure Mode - Less Wrong Discussion
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To me it seems you're just playing with words here. "you can say it's an objective contigent morality", or you can just say it's a "subjective" morality. Either way, you're just playing with words, and not changing the underlying meaning.
The problems with subjective mortality are that it is too ready to vary, and too hard to achieve coordination. If Objective Contingent morality solves those problems, that would be a real and worthwhile difference,