Not talking situational ethics - it's wrong to kill someone for their car but not to stop them killing you - but cultural values.
If that disappears in relation to Pakistani or Ugandan LGBTs & u say 'Its their culture to oppose LGBT rights & we shld respect it'
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Then your ethics are culturally relative & the principle 'stand for LGBT equality' doesn't really exist.
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No, what it means is that that person is a lazy fuck and makes moral decisions based on literally no knowledge at all
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Not so much a lack of knowledge but a fear of imposing western values on non-western cultures & that this is a kind of colonialism.
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Well-intentioned but in practice leads to failing to support the liberals of that society coz no consistency.
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Supporting the liberals of another society seems like a good thing to do as a cultural relativist. It is quite consistent with that idea.
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How? I am a liberal. I support liberals everywhere regardless of culture. Opposite of cultural relativity
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Cultural relativity: I am a liberal and I know what that means where I live. I have to defer to others for assessing morality abroad.
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But do you really? To understand how ppl think, yes. But can't you say all people everywhere shld have equal rights?
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Well yeah, I agree. But that's just the most lazy-ass application of 'moral relativity' possible!
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It happens a hell of a lot.
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Ok, but I find it a mistake to say that that's what 'moral relativity' means, and that therefore moral relativity is bad.
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Well, it is what I mean by moral relativity. We can disagree abt the best definition but more important to discuss the substance.
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Do moral relativists, by your definition, ever disagree with something happening outside of the Western world?
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Almost no-one is a pure moral relativist. If pressed they will acknowledge that eg child marriage is wrong but they'd rather not
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For me, it would only make sense to use the term 'morals' if it's about assigning both 'good' and 'bad' labels—not exclusively one.
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Yes, the word can be used to describe a sense of right & wrong & customs pertaining to both.
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