Slavery once was an acceptable practice in the United States. It was not until 1865 that slavery was abolished due to the ratification of the thirteenth amendment. According to an ethical relativist, slavery, and all other moral issues, cannot be decided to be right or wrong because different cultures have different moral beliefs and since there are many cultures that disagree there can be no objective truth about morality. An Ethical Relativist believes that the only way we could possibly judge another culture, even our own in the past, would be through our own standards and since our standards are not the same as theirs we have no valid way to judge another culture. Finally, an Ethical Relativist could argue that even if there is an objective moral truth we have no way of obtaining it and therefore should consider all cultures believes equally valid.
Ruth Benedict would argue that morals do not exist and the only things that truly exist are the customs of a society. Benedict......
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