Absolutism is the belief that something is either right, or wrong, and there is no difference based on the society you belong to. One theory is on one side of the spectrum, and the other is way at the other end. Personally, I can’t say I agree solely with either. I am somewhere in the middle. As I’m thinking about the two, I thought about something that was common practice for my family. I was raised in a family with a Portuguese background. I am the 1st American born child on both my maternal and paternal side. When I was a child, all of my aunts, uncles, and cousins, would visit my grandparent’s house on Sunday, after church. All of us cousins would sit around while my grandfather, who raised different animals, killed rabbits to cook for dinner. I look back on that and just shrug it off. When I met my husband and that story came up, he looked horrified. To me, that was normal. Every Portuguese person I know can tell you a similar story. That was our culture. My husband, on the other hand, thinks that is some sort of traumatizing
Absolutism is the belief that something is either right, or wrong, and there is no difference based on the society you belong to. One theory is on one side of the spectrum, and the other is way at the other end. Personally, I can’t say I agree solely with either. I am somewhere in the middle. As I’m thinking about the two, I thought about something that was common practice for my family. I was raised in a family with a Portuguese background. I am the 1st American born child on both my maternal and paternal side. When I was a child, all of my aunts, uncles, and cousins, would visit my grandparent’s house on Sunday, after church. All of us cousins would sit around while my grandfather, who raised different animals, killed rabbits to cook for dinner. I look back on that and just shrug it off. When I met my husband and that story came up, he looked horrified. To me, that was normal. Every Portuguese person I know can tell you a similar story. That was our culture. My husband, on the other hand, thinks that is some sort of traumatizing