OK, I want to share my thinking on morality, absolute/relativeness, and statefulness.
Moral tenets are absolute mathematical concepts.
The application of any given moral tenet requires something physical to apply it to.
Oftentimes the same physical act (killing) can be morally categorized in different ways based on prior state. It could be murder, or justice, or self defense, etc, not to get into the weeds about any particular moral tenet.
Therefore state is critical and we cannot simply ignore the past when making moral judgements.
In the Israel-Palestine debate, there is so much past and such a huge disagreement about the moral state that it is intractable.
I do not believe acts are objectively right or wrong, those labels depend on your own set of accepted moral precepts, but also critically on your belief about what the moral state is.
But I am not a normatively moral relativist. I do not think we should allow raping if women just because the rapist is in a culture that accepts this as OK.
The universe and human nature hint at which moral precepts we all ought to subscribe to because they maximize good things for humans... Not because of gods or religions.
I would do this as long-form except for technical limitations O won't get into here.
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