Ethical Relativism

I enjoyed your post and your thoughts on ethical relativism. You are correct in saying that even in a state there are smaller areas in which families and individuals see issues differently and they handle matters in the way they have been shown. Subjects such as discipline, how to run a family, and how to handle personal family matters are something we tend to learn culturally from our families. Having lived in a small town in Tennessee I remember my mother in law telling her grandchildren (as she told her children when they were younger) if they misbehaved they would go have to go to the whipping tree to get a switch off the tree and if it wasn’t big enough she’d whip them all the way back to the tree until they picked a bigger one. The women from the south that I encountered would have one believe this is perfectly normal because it is how they were raised, however I disagree with this form of discipline. While I respect and enjoy the vast diversity of our world I do believe that cultural …show more content…
In my post I touched on reasons, that at face value, ethical relativism does have its valid points, we as individuals rely on those in our family and society to teach and set examples of what is morally right.2 The issue with this is if no one ever questions cultural practices which are wrong how will anything ever change for the betterment of man?3 What really stood out to me which made me question ethical relativism was there have been changes and progress made on the human rights front and people have altered their views on issues such as slavery and women’s rights. This says to me there are matters which have an absolute truth and I feel anything which causes pain to yourself or another is where the line must be