Sacrifice In Aztec Culture

There are countless cultures exist in the world, we were all raised to believe in different things and taught with different perspectives, even things that sometimes other cultures do not consider or even know that existed. Therefore, how can we judge someone’s characteristics sorely based on his actions? There are different moral codes in different cultures, even different traditions and different Gods. Cultural relativism lengthens this idea by presuming that whether a moral action is accepted differ from society to society, and different society follow different rules, thus all cultures are treated equally. One can argue that human sacrifice in Aztec civilization was accepted by within own society, just as we have turkeys for Thanksgiving …show more content…
Therefore, at least three different cultures are interacting with each other. The family with has a cultural belief that it is morally unacceptable to be treated with medications that do not from their own tradition. With regards to this, they made their position clear by rejecting vaccinate from me since it is considered as morally wrong in their own culture. However, I stand in a position where I am a doctor and saving people is part of my responsibility, as for my colleague, who is considered as a cultural relativist believes differently, she thinks that I cannot interfere with their decision of refusing to get treated, in addition, she implies that I am not considered immoral in my culture due to fact of not saving them, but instead, I am respecting their culture by accepting their choice. In order make a decision, we then have to relate to a different concept, which is ethical relativism, which may seem similar with cultural relativism but still differs. Similarly, ethical relativism is the theory that there are no universally valid moral principles, but that all moral principles are valid to culture or individual choice. (Vice and Virtue) On one hand the Diversity thesis believes that morality differ from society to society, and there is no universal moral principles. On the other hand, the Dependency thesis states that all moral principles derive their validity from cultural acceptance. (Vice and Virtue) On the subject of ethical relativism, Ruth Benedict believes that cultural relativism and ethical relativism do not interfere with each other, also moral principles does not derive from cultural acceptance, furthermore, there are universal moral codes based on common aspects. (Vice and Virtue) While I do agree that there a set of moral standards that does not differ much from others, nevertheless,