Essay On Moral Relativism

After looking at this video I do not believe that there are any throughgoing moral relativists. Even Martin Luther King Junior was not thorougoing moral relativits. Thoroughgoing moral relativists believes that there is no difference on how people “should” behave, as oppose to how people believe they should behave. Moral relativism is the view that what's morally right or wrong always depends on your culture or society. Dr. Robert George states in the video that it would be hard to live life as a consistant moral relativist who does not make any kinds of moral claim and supposes anything that anybody did was acceptable and nothing could be wrong (Colson Center for Christian Worldview, n.d., series 2). I personally think that if something is morally wrong then it is wrong no matter what culture or religion you believe in. Alveda King, Dr. Martin Luther King Junior’s neice states in the video, During Dr. king Junior’s life time when he had to consider wether he would obey the law or disobey the law he had to think about the moral value of a law. If the law of the land was something that was going to harm then he would go to the higher law or devine law, the natural law . Dr. King would always say: If a law is unjust it is our moral responsibility reject the unjust law (Colson Center for Christian Worldview, n.d., series 2). We can …show more content…
I think majority of people compartmentalize ethics into two categories private and public. A lot of the time we see people doing things that they know is wrong but feel justified for doing it as part of their job. Since they are being paid for that job “worng” becomes “right”. Right versus right is an ethical dilemma, whereas right versus wrong is identified as a moral temptation. The individual knows the right thing to do, but for other reasons chooses the action that is wrong (Kirsch, 2009, p.