Some values are more subjective than others, though. Especially when it comes to matters like aesthetics. We might disagree on whether or not pineapple belongs on pizza, for example, but when it comes to our own lives having value, it’s nearly universal that our own lives have at least some value to ourselves.
The universality of those values are the basis of that social contract.
If society were to one day just decide that a certain class of people were less valuable for a superficial reaaon, let’s say because they have red hair, for example, is it not possible that that decision could be an objectively bad thing?
It’s not objective at all. We are still fully entitled to feel outrage at it, but that doesn’t make it not a subjective judgement. You can’t measure morality with a tool, and if two people disagree on a moral question there’s no impartial test or metric you can use to decide the matter.
If the earth is destroyed in a calamity, the universe will not weep for our loss. It will just be another thing in the big list of things that have happened.
A value or belief doesn’t need to be objective to be valid, and a belief being subjectively true is functionally identical to objective truth, as far as the believer goes.
