Sounds relative
Not really relative.
There are hierarchies of values when sometimes you are pressed into a situation where you have to choose between CONFLICTING absolutes. Such situations are rare, but someone mentioned the case of either jumping fromt he Twin Towers or being consumed by fire.
One ought to do whatever fulfills the highest moral rule in a situation. When this is the case, such action is right, and the person in no way does wrong. Under this view, there are no tragic moral dilemmas. The lesser of two evils is a misnomer, it is argued, because such lesser evil is actually good.
For instance:
James 2:25
demonstrates that Rahab was “justified” when she lied about the spies. Also, see the midwives at the time of Moses, Peter and John disobeying the Sanhedrin in Acts 4 etc.
So in the Ethical Hierarchy :
1) Persons are more valuable than things
2) Infinite persons are more valuable than finite persons
3) Complete persons are more valuable than incomplete persons(!)
4) Actual persons are more valuable than potential persons
5) Potential persons are more valuable than actual things
6) Many persons are more valuable than a few persons
7) Personal acts which promote personhood are better than those which do not