A #culture is composed of people both good and bad: can it be judged on the whole or do you have to examine individuals?
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Individuals should be treated as individuals, yes. No-one has to examine cultures at all but it helps if you want to change them. A culture will not tell us anything about any specific individual. In every culture which condemns homosexuality, there will be people fighting that.
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I think cultures as a whole have always denounced homosexuality on the basis that it is not "natural". The individual, as opposed to the mass culture, will change
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That will be a cultural change - lots of individuals of the same mind. The zeitgeist changes. We can still treat individuals as individuals and cultures as cultures. That was we can support liberal individuals trying to change their culture for the better. See Saudi Arabia
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And that people have to be judged by the cultures of their ancestors which don't even exist anymore.
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It's not like they hesitate to (rightly) criticize rightwing white christians in other countries for their cultural values. It's not "relativism is good" so much as "punching down is bad" as the starting moral principle. Relativism is just a convenient post hoc rationalization
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If you think cultural relativism is bad, wait till you try cultural absolutism.
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Is "respecting other cultures" also a relative value? If so then not respecting other cultures is equally good. If not then we need objective values.
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What about people who move to the west from a theocratic culture? Should they continue to live by sharia law essentially building a parallel culture, or respect western culture?
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Why would one move to a culture they didn't respect? For colonialism?
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To be fair, they don’t think it’s right to change someone else’s culture because we judge it inferior as happened in colonialism, changing ones own culture is perfectly acceptable and even necessary.
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Please. Never change.
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Cultural relativism contradicts itself.
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I would pin this tweet of yours if I could.
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Elegantly put. Kolakowski makes a beautiful case in "Looking for the Barbarians: The Illusions of Cultural Universalism." Highly recommended.
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Everyone must embrace multiculturalism. Except for this group. And this group. OK. Let me start over. You must embrace multiculturalism. Don't ask about anyone else. It's for your own good. We all hate you. We'll make up a reason, later. Did I mention, it's for your own good?
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Indeedy. Whose culture? Whose law? Whose moral values? There's an assumption that moral values are unanimously endorsed by the individuals within any named culture/state/religion, rather than actively contested (eg women within Saudi Arabia).
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Cultural relativism is what allows me to judge the slave owning founding fathers as great and noble men. It has it’s place.
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