Relativism in morality ensures a progressive value system?

Answer 1

No.

A distinction must be made between right and right.

Correct, and Moral.

Example:

If your grandmother makes you cookies, and they taste horrible to you, and she asks if they taste wonderful to you.

Correct answer: No, they taste horrible to me.

Moral answer: ?

Relativism is correct, but that doesn't mean it is moral. In fact, relativism is "amoral"- not immoral or moral. It has no moral opinions. It doesn't want people to do bad things, and it doesn't want people to do good things; because the nature of good and bad are opinions in the context of relativism.

Relativism isn't about telling people what they "should" do. It implies no value system whatsoever.

Whatever the consequences of relativism are, it remains the correct interpretation.

Usually, though, we as human beings impose our own value systems upon society, and hold each other to them. These are social value systems. While social value systems are relative (to each society), within the society themselves they are as absolutes (though people may still disagree with them, and never be wrong, they will be held accountable by them).

Sometimes those social values become so strong and wide-spread that people mistake them for universal, absolute values- that is is a factual mistake, and the interpretation is incorrect. Is this false interpretation moral? You decide.

Relativism doesn't ensure anything, nor does absolutism. Absolutism, however, can be more dangerous when two absolutist-thinking societies come into contact and disagree on some key point of morality.