The idea that we choose our moralities and the idea that moralities are emergent properties of societies are two very different contentions.
Importantly, in the latter case, we are compelled by forces external to us. It's not so much that we choose our moralities in the case that metaethical relativism is true - but that our moralities are chosen for us by what is essentially an accident of our birth. We note that this can often seem to be the case - but we also note moral dissent within societies. It might be, in the case that metaethical relativism is true, that you personally (and subjectively) object due to something like the choices referenced earlier - but that does not (or would not) alter the fact that your dissent would be wrong in fact - as the society from which you dissent is the finder of moral fact, or the moral fact-maker if we prefer. Practically speaking....descriptively speaking...our moralities are neither purely subjective or purely relative. They are at least a combination of these two things - and thus our moralities are...again speaking descriptively.....value plural systems. We defer to both our societies and at least some personal variation within them.
The whole thing is fascinating. How many permutations and consistent moral utterances you can get with just those two underlying variables - but not what the OP is asking about specifically. The OP is wondering whether there is a good reason to believe that at least some moral utterances are of a third type. Those true of the matter itself, in fact. So...maybe I have a personal opinion about [insert degenerate shit here]. Maybe my society also has an opinion and maybe I'm influenced by that.
...but could there be facts of the inserted X itself which might also identify a thing as-such?
Importantly, in the latter case, we are compelled by forces external to us. It's not so much that we choose our moralities in the case that metaethical relativism is true - but that our moralities are chosen for us by what is essentially an accident of our birth. We note that this can often seem to be the case - but we also note moral dissent within societies. It might be, in the case that metaethical relativism is true, that you personally (and subjectively) object due to something like the choices referenced earlier - but that does not (or would not) alter the fact that your dissent would be wrong in fact - as the society from which you dissent is the finder of moral fact, or the moral fact-maker if we prefer. Practically speaking....descriptively speaking...our moralities are neither purely subjective or purely relative. They are at least a combination of these two things - and thus our moralities are...again speaking descriptively.....value plural systems. We defer to both our societies and at least some personal variation within them.
The whole thing is fascinating. How many permutations and consistent moral utterances you can get with just those two underlying variables - but not what the OP is asking about specifically. The OP is wondering whether there is a good reason to believe that at least some moral utterances are of a third type. Those true of the matter itself, in fact. So...maybe I have a personal opinion about [insert degenerate shit here]. Maybe my society also has an opinion and maybe I'm influenced by that.
...but could there be facts of the inserted X itself which might also identify a thing as-such?
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