Cultural Relativism
Cultural Relativism is an ethical theory to the effect that the rightness or wrongness of an action depends exclusively on the standards of the actor's culture. According to cultural relativism, the only kinds of reasons that are relevant for justifying moral propositions are: (1) Standards of the actor's culture ; (2) Empirical propositions which derive their relevance from the standards identified in (1) ; and (3) Definitions which derive their relevance from the standards identified in (1) and the empirical propositions identified in (2).
The following argument logically presupposes cultural relativism:
Maria lived in America.
Maria had a husband named Charles.
Charles died of natural causes.
Following Charles' death, Maria took her own life.
One of the standards of the American culture is that it is moral to kill yourself at the death of your husband.
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