Moral codes on a national scale are always going to be vague and inclusive, as well as exclusive. Usually, it’s seemed to be ethically wrong to murder someone. However, the ancient Aztecs used to perform human sacrifices. To us in modern times, this is such a foreign concept that it seems barbaric but the Aztecs didn’t even see it as murder at all. Murder as a bad thing did exist in their ancient society but human sacrifice was a necessary component to their perceived happiness and wellbeing, therefore they didn’t believe that it was a bad thing. A more recent example of different perspectives: slaves. Up until recently, it was deemed ethically okay by multitudes of people to own slaves, but now that sort of thing would unheard of. Different perspectives are all that matters. Location, nurture and environment affect thing like an ethical code, leading to many variables in the development of
Moral codes on a national scale are always going to be vague and inclusive, as well as exclusive. Usually, it’s seemed to be ethically wrong to murder someone. However, the ancient Aztecs used to perform human sacrifices. To us in modern times, this is such a foreign concept that it seems barbaric but the Aztecs didn’t even see it as murder at all. Murder as a bad thing did exist in their ancient society but human sacrifice was a necessary component to their perceived happiness and wellbeing, therefore they didn’t believe that it was a bad thing. A more recent example of different perspectives: slaves. Up until recently, it was deemed ethically okay by multitudes of people to own slaves, but now that sort of thing would unheard of. Different perspectives are all that matters. Location, nurture and environment affect thing like an ethical code, leading to many variables in the development of