In a world where we witness many tragedies and many achievements there are lingering questions on why we make certain actions and not others. There must be a way to find the source of our morals because we seem to make similar actions through time. Many of the attempts to name what the source of our morality are rejected due to dilemmas and challenged premises, but strongest among them all is Moral Relativism. The argument for Moral Relativism is the strongest argument for discovering what grounds morality but this argument is especially challenged by those that claim there are general norms across the world that are upheld by nearly everyone; my response to these claims discredits the consistency and the practice of these norms through their
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When people are putting trust into others they are acting in self-interest because the trust that occurs most frequently across cultures happens at every moment of life. This trust can be associated for the will to live but not the explanation for people’s actions across the globe and therefore does not discredit premise (1). Children are another source of objections but the moral norms for children are not consistent across cultures. People want to believe that everyone see’s a child and expresses sympathy or gratitude for life continuing but it is not true. Through time different cultures have treated children differently, especially in the United States. Children used to be beaten when something they did was wrong and this form of punishment was widely used and accepted but now there are different bureaucracies to prevent acts of similar kind in order to protect children. This may have changed for the United States but is not consistent across the globe. In fact there are studies done on such actions and one in particular from the Compassion Society is that “every 10 minutes, somewhere in the world, an adolescent girl dies as a result of violence.” This cannot be ignored and clearly stands against the objection because this proves that moral norms are not consistent across cultures. There are positive forms of Moral Relativism and they are expressed with the admiration of time. Consistently cultures have adapted to the crime that surrounds them but crime, for the most part, remains a local issue. It is clear that different police forces adapt to their surroundings and will use their time to take on different sources of crime. Some neighborhoods rely on traffic stops and busting teenagers for different vices but in others within the same state will focus on gang violence and drug trafficking. Moral Relativism can account for these differences
When people are putting trust into others they are acting in self-interest because the trust that occurs most frequently across cultures happens at every moment of life. This trust can be associated for the will to live but not the explanation for people’s actions across the globe and therefore does not discredit premise (1). Children are another source of objections but the moral norms for children are not consistent across cultures. People want to believe that everyone see’s a child and expresses sympathy or gratitude for life continuing but it is not true. Through time different cultures have treated children differently, especially in the United States. Children used to be beaten when something they did was wrong and this form of punishment was widely used and accepted but now there are different bureaucracies to prevent acts of similar kind in order to protect children. This may have changed for the United States but is not consistent across the globe. In fact there are studies done on such actions and one in particular from the Compassion Society is that “every 10 minutes, somewhere in the world, an adolescent girl dies as a result of violence.” This cannot be ignored and clearly stands against the objection because this proves that moral norms are not consistent across cultures. There are positive forms of Moral Relativism and they are expressed with the admiration of time. Consistently cultures have adapted to the crime that surrounds them but crime, for the most part, remains a local issue. It is clear that different police forces adapt to their surroundings and will use their time to take on different sources of crime. Some neighborhoods rely on traffic stops and busting teenagers for different vices but in others within the same state will focus on gang violence and drug trafficking. Moral Relativism can account for these differences