LGBT ppl have the same right to equality & freedom from violence & oppression wherever they happen to live.
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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Why? Why do you have to be an expert in Saudi culture to decide whether Saudi women shld have the same rights & freedoms as men?
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To think this is to be culturally relative. It could be OK to deny women equality if those women are Saudi, not if western.
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And, more specifically, it would be the most trivial application of 'cultural relativity'. ("Everything I don't know much about is fine")
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Imagine an ethical formula with a placeholder for cultural values, and it pops out a 'right' or 'wrong'. Would that necessarily be bad?
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Sorry. I don't understand what you're asking.
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I'm trying to get at the difference between "shifting"/"inconsistent" ethics and "context-dependent" ethics (hence: placeholders)
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