What Is Moral Relativism? Why Right and Wrong Aren't Always Obvious
Your culture says eating cows is fine but eating dogs is horrific. Other cultures flip that completely. Who’s right? Moral relativists say nobody. And everybody. Right and wrong aren’t universal truths waiting to be discovered. They’re just what your society decided to value. This sounds reasonable until you push it. If morality is just cultural opinion, then slavery wasn’t actually wrong when societies practiced it. It was just different. Female genital mutilation isn’t wrong in cultures that practice it today....