There is a dangerous idea that keeps resurfacing, usually dressed up as tolerance or compassion, but it is neither. It is moral relativism. This is the claim that there is no truth beyond personal opinion, no right or wrong beyond what someone feels in the moment.

This idea is very harmful.

Relativism does not merely say, "People see things differently." It says "There is no truth to see at all". Only "your truth" and "my truth", but never "the truth". Eleusis was full of this.

Once truth is reduced to opinion, power fills the vacuum. Whoever gathers the largest mob, or claims the greatest moral outrage, decides what is acceptable.

This is where loyalty becomes weaponized.

When someone demands that denouncing a friend, a family member, or a long-standing bond is not a breach of loyalty but a necessary correction, what they are really demanding is a transfer of loyalty. Not toward shared principles, not toward truth, but toward them. Toward their ideology. Toward the mob. Toward fear of being targeted next.

Being alive means you decide what you say. Any attempt to strip that away- to coerce people through shame, threats, or moral grandstanding- is an attack on an individual's autonomy itself. It reduces people from moral individuals to tools. From living beings to instruments.

That is totalitarian thinking, whether it wears armour, robes, or smiles.

Relativism also corrodes the foundations of civilization. If there is no objective truth, then there is no objective value to life itself. Dignity becomes conditional. Worth becomes negotiable. Life is protected only so long as the prevailing opinion allows it.

But life does not have value because we agree it does.
It has value because it is.

Families, communities, laws, and shared reality itself are built on that assumption. Some things are true whether we like them or not. That reality exists outside of our feelings. That truth is not created by a consensus.

When those fundamental foundations are rejected, everything built on them begins to crack.

History shows us clearly that the worst atrocities do not begin with hatred alone, but with the denial of objective truth and dignity. Once those are gone, anything can be justified.

The great tragedy is that relativism pretends to be humble, when it is actually arrogant. It claims the authority to redefine truth, loyalty, and life itself.

The great hope is that when people stop entertaining nonsense, stop bending to coercion, and focus on what is real, what is true, and what actually matters... they win.
Every time.

Not through mobs...
Not through denunciations...
But through clarity, courage, and conviction.

Truth does not need permission to exist.
And loyalty that must be enforced is not loyalty at all.

Penned by my hand on the 16th of Glacian, in the year 992 AF.