Moral Relativism In Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go

Ishiguro shows the manipulation of human form and social ideologies through his formation of progressive capitalist society in Never Let Me Go. To show this truth, Ishiguro touches on many aspects of the society through his way of writing, first of all, he shows the way the capital society is able to exploit people and make them happy with the control it holds on them. Secondly he shows how people who hold control over other, and can convince them that any other different group of people is less of a human. After, Ishiguro touches on the idea of moral relativism and how in this progressive society misused it to show cloning as something totally fine and acceptable, which makes the vast majority, agree on it. Then he shows how group …show more content…
This show how morality varies depends on the society, and on the culture. However, Ishiguro show the possible bad use of this concept, and how the morality of people can be manipulated in a bad way under this concept. In Never Let Me Go Ishiguro shows in the very last sections how people consider cloning as something moral and they do not want to do anything about it. This idea reflect how morality is relative depends on the society. However, in the book Ishiguro shows how controllers with bad intentions are able manipulate this idea to serve their desires. This makes people consider immoral actions on all of the standards as moral actions, by creating new standards that contradict with humanity where absolute morality kicks in. Also this manipulation of the values of humanity shows unbalance between the superego and the Id according to the psychoanalytic theory. The Id of these people is absolutely taking over and makes them reach this extent of moral relativism. The idea or moral relativism is definitely present in our world. As stated in the encyclopedia of philosophy “Moral relativism is the view that moral judgments are true or false only relative to some particular standpoint (for instance, that of a culture or a historical period) and that no standpoint is uniquely privileged over all others” (www.iep.utm.edu ) This quote shows morality is something changeable and depends only on certain point of view. Moreover, this quote state that all moral value undergo the same way of judging. Except for the humanity values that should not be changeable. Because all societies and cultures share that it was build, formed and contains humans, and what all humans share is humanity. In conclusion, Ishiguro shows how certain society are willing to cross this limits, to achieve their desires, even if it was by manipulating the values of humanity within these