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How is a different perspective unhelpful or unpractical?
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A different perspective is confusing, and can be wrong. What you're basically saying is that all ideas can hold an acceptable meaning. This is wrong. For example:
Father to son:
Father: Son, you can never lie.
Son: Okay dad.
Father: Not once can you ever lie. Not under any circumstance. Never lie, for that it is wrong to do so and will always will be.
Father to son (FROM A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE):
Father: Son, you can never lie.
Son: Okay dad.
Father: WELL...you can lie SOMETIMES, but only if you want to.
Son: Really?
Father: Yes, but only when you think it is right. Otherwise, never lie.
The second example is an example of looking at things at a different perspective. The first is following an absolute value. If we have nothing that has absolute value, then value becomes meaningless. When values become meaningless, then we see that everything is acceptable...no matter how horrible it might be. I'm sure what Hitler did in World War II was wrong...but if you try to find a reason why his crimes were justified, you would be looking at that as a different perspective...and that, my friend, is wrong.
Long story short, don't be a relativist. Those are my 2 cents (It's more like a dollar given the length though) on this issue. I can't argue anything else worth a damn.