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Are you trying to argue what is, or a morally defensible stance?

Yes, pretty much everything is ultimately backed up by force. The purpose of morals is to create social contracts that mitigate the use of force and peaceably resolve conflict everyone's benefit.

Arguing the merits of moral ideas is not fruitless, because a good moral contract will be logically consistent over a wide range of conflict and benefit the members of a society who heed it. Logically inconsistent morals leave more room for misinterpretation and confusion in conflict which makes it easier to regress to using force.