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Hello, I signed up as a new member just to answer to this. I am disturbed by relativism in the world for it creates havoc. It is not in our interest to coexist in chaotic social conditions therefore we must adhere to absolutism at least in terms of moral values. Ayn Rand helps a lot in that respect. Whatever good comes from our civilisation derives from Aristotelian philosophy and its derivatives (Ayn Rand's Objectivism) . When people adheres to relativism, everything goes south. Altruism, for example, is a relativist's virtue (which it cannot be, for all virtues must come from the self and be applied to the self). Altruism (and self-sacrifice) cannot be applied to the same individual that practices it. In other words it is a unidirectional act. Unlike altruism virtues that are universal like love, respect and philanthropy, CAN BE APLIED to the self. As a matter of fact they should FIRSTLY applied to the self. Altruism can't, hence there's no meaning in including it to the list of universal virtues. A virtue cannot in itself foster the elimination of the virtuous individual. Moreover, If reality isn't objective then a person that falls from a skyscraper and hits the concrete below with his/her head first it's not certain that he/she dies. Unfortunately that is never the case.