It could be argued man has two primary drives in life, to procreate and to self preserve. It is because of these (think of Aquinas' primary precepts) that men created 'absolute truths'. For whether anything is purely absolute is debatable, after all 'someone' had to think them up in the first place and they at that point would have been relative to their creator. It should be more apt to say that an 'absolute moral truth' would be a moral standard that applies to a base instinct. 'Thou shall not kill' applies to the instinct of self preservation, the moral abhortion of rape stands to the instinct of procreation and it is wrong to steal counts for the hunter gatherers among us. The moral of 'thou shall not kill' serves not just to protect you should you adhere to it but also acts as an assurance that those who follow it will not harm you. A double whammy of moral safety that fulfils this instinct of self preservation.
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