Last year, between the months of April and June, England’s health care system has treated more than 1,026 cases of female mutilation (Topping). Of these a good portion of the girls were under the age of 18. Since September 2014, 4,098 cases of mutilation have been reported-- thousands of girls left either dead or seriously injured. What had started as a cultural phenomenon to discourage girls’ sexual desires has turned into a widely acknowledged epidemic that has spurred the fires of many heated debates.
When asked where one stands on the issue, two common answers are likely to appear. The first: That societies differ and what we consider in foul taste, other’s consider tradition. The people of these opinions are commonly referred to as ethical …show more content…
He says that while we may romanticize the idea of social tolerance, in actuality many practices differ from what we may consider morally acceptable. Relativists have created a careful balance of living by a policy that implies equal treatment for all regardless of actions due to cultural circumstances, but when it comes down to it, when an injustice is committed and we do nothing about it, we are choosing to ignore our societal duties. Our complicated western policies of relativism ensure that we can do nothing to improve situations in which our morals our compromised. Ethical relativism forces its believers to sit on their hands and accept the moral outcome of almost any situation, so long as it was committed under the protective blanket of cultural …show more content…
Tolerance has never been seen as disagreeable, however, the sentiment of accepting even the most haneous acts of human suffering has been taken to the extreme in ethical relativism. While tolerance is a virtue, indifference, and often comforimity to injustices is reprehensible. In our society of rapid growth and interaction, we no longer have the option of living in what Midgley suggests are self-contained continents, an isolationism of sorts. We cannot ignore individuals being subjected to numerous pains and injustices for the ideals of ‘open-mindedness’. Midgley discusses this idea by bringing up ancient Samuri tradition. Upon purchasing a new sword, it was custom to try its effectivness on the nearest passerby, and while it was considered an honor to die this way, it was effectivly killed hundereds of people, and so then, should we not consider it
When asked where one stands on the issue, two common answers are likely to appear. The first: That societies differ and what we consider in foul taste, other’s consider tradition. The people of these opinions are commonly referred to as ethical …show more content…
He says that while we may romanticize the idea of social tolerance, in actuality many practices differ from what we may consider morally acceptable. Relativists have created a careful balance of living by a policy that implies equal treatment for all regardless of actions due to cultural circumstances, but when it comes down to it, when an injustice is committed and we do nothing about it, we are choosing to ignore our societal duties. Our complicated western policies of relativism ensure that we can do nothing to improve situations in which our morals our compromised. Ethical relativism forces its believers to sit on their hands and accept the moral outcome of almost any situation, so long as it was committed under the protective blanket of cultural …show more content…
Tolerance has never been seen as disagreeable, however, the sentiment of accepting even the most haneous acts of human suffering has been taken to the extreme in ethical relativism. While tolerance is a virtue, indifference, and often comforimity to injustices is reprehensible. In our society of rapid growth and interaction, we no longer have the option of living in what Midgley suggests are self-contained continents, an isolationism of sorts. We cannot ignore individuals being subjected to numerous pains and injustices for the ideals of ‘open-mindedness’. Midgley discusses this idea by bringing up ancient Samuri tradition. Upon purchasing a new sword, it was custom to try its effectivness on the nearest passerby, and while it was considered an honor to die this way, it was effectivly killed hundereds of people, and so then, should we not consider it