I am curious, have you revised your position that goodness or "this is good" is just a way of saying "I approve of this," and that morality is just personal preference derived from social norms? — Count Timothy von Icarus

If there's any solid ground to my ideas of morality, it's mostly in the way of being deontological - and in small ways I actually meet that standard.

Like Jewish refugees in Palestine? Or Palestinians in Egypt, Kuwait, Libya, Lebanon, etc.? — Count Timothy von Icarus

Fair enough. People do not always live up to their own highest cultural standards. Good on them for having them, bad for scanting them.