I'm not saying the context determines morality. I'm saying that answers to what is right or wrong don't always translate from one to another
...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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Talking abt them having a principle that they shouldn't be challenged because we shld respect other cultures moral values.
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