Ruth Benedict (1934) stated it best when she stated, “the concept of the normal is properly a variant of the concept of the good. It is that which society has approved.” Moral absolutism is the ethical belief that there are absolute standards against which moral questions can be judged, and that certain actions are right or wrong, regardless of the context of the act. Moral relativism is when there are deep and widespread moral disagreements across different societies, and these disagreements are much more significant than whatever agreements there may be. I believe America could use moral relativism. Every society has a different definition on what is “normal” and socially acceptable. This is what defines what is morally right within that country. I do not believe morals are always black and white. For example, I do not believe killing someone is morally right, but if it is in self-defense then one has the ability to act more morally.
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Content relativism is “the view that sentences may have different meanings in different frameworks”, while truth relativism is “the view that sentences have the same content in different frameworks, but their truth-value may vary across these frameworks.”(Gowans, 2015) Truth or justification of moral issues could be relative to an individual person or a group of people.
There are morals that would be considered good or bad in any society. I do not believe that all morals are black and white, which is why I believe America should follow moral relativism. We have had many times where our actions, at the time, were considered moral but now they are considered immoral. Every country has had times where they lacked morality. For example, we did when we had slavery and Germany did when they persecuted people during WWII (Velasquez, Andre, Shanks, S.J, Meyer, 1992). We have learned from our past and have policies in place to help keep us from going down the same
Content relativism is “the view that sentences may have different meanings in different frameworks”, while truth relativism is “the view that sentences have the same content in different frameworks, but their truth-value may vary across these frameworks.”(Gowans, 2015) Truth or justification of moral issues could be relative to an individual person or a group of people.
There are morals that would be considered good or bad in any society. I do not believe that all morals are black and white, which is why I believe America should follow moral relativism. We have had many times where our actions, at the time, were considered moral but now they are considered immoral. Every country has had times where they lacked morality. For example, we did when we had slavery and Germany did when they persecuted people during WWII (Velasquez, Andre, Shanks, S.J, Meyer, 1992). We have learned from our past and have policies in place to help keep us from going down the same