It just means that translating from another context may not be a good method for doing that.
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Not talking situational ethics - it's wrong to kill someone for their car but not to stop them killing you - but cultural values.
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Cultural values cld be 'women shouldn't go out.' Can condemn this. Situational ones cld be 'women under house arrest shldnt go out'
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Ok, so… to translate that into my 'context' world: you're saying there are nested contexts. A hierarchy of contexts. Yes?
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I'm fairly sure that's not what I'm saying coz I don't know what it means.
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Haha! Translating abstract concepts is challenging

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What I was saying was that principles like 'women shld have equal rights' shld be universal. Situations can change it but this ...
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...would also need 2 b consistent across cultures.When asking 'which women shldnt have equal rights' answer can't be 'Muslim ones'
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It could be 'women who commit violent crime shld lose their right to freedom for a while' but this wild need to apply to men too
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But how can you tell the difference if you don't know what people's moral assessments are based on? One can be mistaken for the other.
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You have to know what they're based on to call it cultural relativity. You need to know its based on cultural values.
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If you don't know if someone threw a gay man off a building coz his values are homophobic or coz the man was trying to kill him...
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...then you have to reserve judgement on the ethics. If turns out to be the former, liberal values must condemn it despite culture.
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I find it hard to think abt the "despite culture" part, bc it's such a broad placeholder. It's be much easier to look at concrete cultures.
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You can just think all ppl deserve human rights, equal rights & freedoms &this not vary by deference to cultural norms which differ
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If I am an expert in 2 sets of cultural norms, I shld be able to determine the morality of actions in both. If not, then I can't.
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