Universal Values or Cultural Mirage? Confronting the Comfort of Relativism

Why pretending all values are equal erodes free speech, blunts moral clarity, and weakens the very freedoms we cherish.

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The Fallacy of Universal Values

The grand delusion of our age—the saccharine mantra that we’re all the same, trotted out like some threadbare Disney animatronic, beaming its vacuous grin over the rubble of reality. But let’s dispense wit…