Difference Between Subject Relativism And Ethical Egoism

The moral dilemma I am facing involves four people in total myself included. This predicament involves a coworker who I consider a friend and two other coworkers. One of the coworkers is going out with my friend, and my friend found another job. After a couple of weeks this coworker cheats on my friend with another worker who is actually my boss. My choices were either to tell my friend what was going on or keep it to myself.
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The two-ethical theory I decided to apply to my dilemma is Subject Relativism and Ethical Egoism. In Subject relativism, which is the view that an action is morally right if one approves of it (Vaughn, p.21). Your approval is what makes any particular action right. In subjective relativism one’s action might be right for one person and not the other, which states that any action can be both wrong and right.” Any specific action is relative to every individual, which would make all of us morally infallible. If we approve of an action¬¬ and we are sincere in our approval then that action is morally right.” (Vaughn, p.22) In subject relativism there is one big objection toward its theory that we as humans are not perfect we are not infallible. “We …show more content…
Everything is relative to an individual such as myself, if we are sincere with our action. My action would be to interfere in a sense it’s my business to begin with since he is my friend. If It was the other way around I would want get involved in something that does concern me in an emotional level and I believe that interfering in the situation would be the best course of action to the dilemma that was presented to me. If I do anything else concerning the dilemma I would feel as I’m not being a good friend in interfering and I would not agree with the fact that my action would not be morally correct if I did not get