Contexts aren't universal. In one its OK to kill gay ppl & in another it isn't. That is a fact. Moral relativity is upholding it.
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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I don't know what you mean abt knowledge. I'm not talking abt ppl not addressing problems coz they don't know they exist. 1/2
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