Moral Relativism - Part Four

Part Four: The Catholic Church and Relativism
If the arguments against moral relativism are strong, how is it that so many people advocate and preach relativism on a day to day basis? Why is relativism so popular? I think this important question can be answered partly because of the problems supporters of absolutes encounter. This goes back to the two objections to moral absolutes raised in the previous post; 1) What if you get you objective standard wrong? and 2) What gives you the authority to judge the actions of others by your objective standard? The first of these two objections is the most powerful and the argument would appear to hinge on this point. If a person could provide absolute standards at once universal and convincing then the claims of moral relativism would be shot to pieces. Can such a system be demonstrated? Were you to ask a person to justify the absolute moral standards whereby he lives his life what would he say?