Cultural Relativism: A Moral Fallacy
Cultural Relativism is the theory that all belief's are equally valid and that truth itself is relative, depending on the situation, environment and individual. Those who hold the belief of Cultural Relativist, hold that all beliefs are completely relative to the individual within a cultural identity. In this essay, I will show that cultural relativism is unreliable as an ethical theory by showing the irrationality of the arguments that support it.
The key to understanding morality for Cultural Relativist, is to simply say that different cultures have different moral codes (Ethics 652). There are no universal truths in their mind. They believe that there are different customs in every society and cannot be deemed whether they are right or wrong. For example, the female infanticide which is as old as many cultures, remains a critical concern for Americans today. This phenomenon is practiced in China and India. The Chinese and Indian......
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