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Is he saying the first point is wrong or just that it conflicts with the second?
That it conflicts. He's saying that if you believe that morality is relative and every person/culture has the difficult task of defining their own, it's ironic to be so aghast when people have reached different conclusions than you.
It seems like that tension between those things (which I'd expect are natural intuitions that many people experience) would be a foundational principle in ethics. Is it? Is that the joke?
as someone who never studied ethics academically, this was also my guess.
Setting aside the unshakeable part, morality should be somewhat rigid. While relative, that doesn't mean morality can or should change on a whim.
There are two opinions: mine and wrong.
This, we sadly have people who believe that open-mindness is a virtue, as long as you're open-minded in the exact same way as everypony else.