In watching or reading modern science fiction, there seems to be a trend where more "enlightened" aliens rebuke people of Earth for their narrow views on morality. They point out that their own values are different, and ought to be respected, because all morality is subjective.
The irony is, these "enlightened" aliens seem to have no respect for the values of the people of Earth.
Essentially, these aliens are saying, "Your views are subjective. Ours are objective."
But since the aliens are arguing that values are subjective, they contradict themselves...
...or rather, the scriptwriters do. Since when this kind of dialog is used, it's basically pushing a moral relativity and portraying it as an objective good that only backwards people oppose.
What's overlooked is the fact that if all values are relative, there's nothing wrong with with these "Earth values," and nothing right about "alien values" of relativity.
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