You have to know what they're based on to call it cultural relativity. You need to know its based on cultural values.
Talking abt them having a principle that they shouldn't be challenged because we shld respect other cultures moral values.
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Let's find a better word for that attitude… 'other-cultural affirmative'? Because there are no ethics involved in such blanket statements.
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"Everything outside of my culture is good" If everything is 'good', you don't need ethics.
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That's why I say moral relativism doesn't really have any. All cultural norms are equally good.
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Well… that's how you defined it! So of course it has that property.
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Well, I am talking about what I am talking about. If you're talking abt another meaning, I cld well agree with you.
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Yes. So I think I understand now that you are saying that 'moral relativity' is a misnomer, based on how it is commonly expressed.
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I'm not really saying that. I'm just using it to describe the belief that we should consider all cultural values equally ethical
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