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Building your own set of values being a desirable outcome is itself a value set.
There is no day zero for morality. Liberalism itself is a grand experiment and compromise in itself. Recognizing that conflict is costly, and that ignoring differences where possible is preferable to constant war. Thus we draw up rules of engagement for conflict and decision making that affects the collective, and fuck off about everything else.
It's a failed experiment obviously, and it can't be reattempted until Good people eradicate the institutional evil around us. And start over.
So at this point Christians will need to impose their values again, and non'-christians will fall in line or civilized society dies for the foreseeable future. Because that's how we achieved it in the first place
Fair though I do worry about the last paragraph. The main issue is that people have never agreed on what's the objective. There is no established universal destination for society at large. Everyone has this idea of a utopia but no one tells you what you should do once you're there beside enjoy it. Are we to assume then that maximizing enjoyment is the end goal? Or is there no greater purpose? A morale paradigm needs to answer those questions if it is to unite us forward. Christianity brought us to the peak of western civilization but had no say into where else we should go once we got there. I'd argue this is why it stopped being fashionable. That's not to say that our lives couldn't have been better then but merely that they were confortable enough. At that point, people search for a greater purpose. Most will settle for self-indulgence while some others will throw themselves at a random cause. This is what led to the chaos and morale depravity of today. If Christianity had a good answer, we wouldn't be here and if Christianity leads us to where we were, we'll come back here again.
Well quite. humanity is failure incarnate, it's in our nature.
Living in accordance with God's law is the only possible way towards reducing coercion and violence.
So no. It does have an answer, it's that human society is not capable of an end goal, and that the only path for liberal ideologies to survive is to hide under an objective framework that permits it to exist.
This is only possible under Christainity which recognizes the foreigner and condems coercion in favor of forgiveness.
I've said all along that leftist in the United States attempts to adopt Puritian methods and frameworks without having the baseline required to make them reasonable. They claim they deserve power because they think they deserve power.
My whole comment is based on the idea of wanting a liberal society where each can decide those things themselves. It's self contradictory as the only way this is even possible is through magniminious Christianity.