For this discussion, I'm not making any of those arguments. I'm just trying to get someone to say in one sentence whether or not they believe there is such a thing as right and wrong.
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I would have to go to ludicrous levels of strawmanhood to form a counter-argument where justification for the perpetrator's actions could be found. (But you knew that.)
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Yeah, and you know why? Because there's a gaping hole in the philosophy that states that there is no black and white. You can see it every time something black or white goes shimmying through it.
And I think that we are something more than animals. It's easy to look at all the obvious parallels between us and the other creatures who are made of meat, bone and connective tissue and conclude, "Hey we're just another version of that." But there's too much evidence (albeit circumstantial) that we're more.
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That's why the Golden Rule is simple, because kindergarteners aren't generally capable of thinking about the world in philosophical terms.
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For which we should be eternally grateful. They teach us a lot more that way.