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.

If you’ve made it this far in life without being fired, cancelled, or publicly flogged for saying something true, congratulations — you’re ahead of me. I write because I can’t not; because silence feels like complicity, and complicity feels like rot. If this piece leaves you nodding, snarling, or muttering, “Well, he’s not wrong,” then you’re precisely …