Pragmatism is OK until you remember the Pragmatists’ mantra:
“Damn the Absolute”.
The kind of relativism that idea has introduced into American morals has been very destructive.
That would be the case if the goal being sought is defined as a relativistic one, but not if absolutes are employed to shape what is defined as a goal worth pursuing. For want of a better word, pragmatism allows a person to sort wheat from chaff, rather than scampering like a kitten after the chaff when some of it blows across the floor.