Atheists only vote please: Do absolute MORAL truths exist? Is Rape ALWAYS "wrong"?

[JuliaL]

Would morality be relevant if you were a duck?

Disclaimer: I have never been a duck.

But if I were, I expect there would be situations I would consider better or worse, hence right or wrong constituting duck morality.

I try to see things from different perspectives. In the case of fellow humans, this is a direct extrapolation to 'How would I feel if I were in their shoes.'
This is pretty much straight empathy.
I extend this to non-humans with similar brain/body mass ratios, chimpanzees, whales, elephants.
The extrapolation gets more shaky. But for our closest relatives the chimps, I have little sympathy for the contention that 'They are JUST animals.' when they exhibit behaviors sufficient for me to grant them full humanity if they had been genetically fully human instead of only 95%. This puts me at odds with those who would revolt at medical experiments done on other races of human while fully condoning any experimentation done on non-human primates. I find the attitudes of mid 20th century Americans towards syphilis experiments on African Amerians and 21st century human chauvinists towards experiments on chimps to be entirely parallel and unacceptable.