'Then who gets to decide what's ethical?' isn't a gotcha response to opposition to cultural relativity. It misses the point completely.
OK, they may not be called that but killing ppl for having sex with someone of same sex is wrong in every context.
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Right—so in order to make your moral point, you had to make it more abstract. That's not surprising and is an example of what I'm saying.
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Are we at cross purposes? I'm not saying all cultures have the same moral values. I'm saying we shouldn't validate them all.
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By cultural relativity, I mean saying things like 'Its wrong for a christian to discriminate against LGBTs but OK for a Muslim'
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Cultural relativity is when your own ethics shift depending on who is doing something, not noticing different cultural values exist
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Ok, *that* definition I can relate to more than the previous one.
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That's always what I meant. If I was unclear, that's why we're at cross purposes.
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"…ethics shift depending on" — I'm focusing on the "depending on" part, assuming consistent ethics, applied in a context-aware manner.
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Well, I'm talking about inconsistent ethics. Culturally relative ones.
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