What Is Ethically Right

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The view that what is ethically right is relative to each and every person. if person A believes bribery is ethical, it is; if person B believes bribery is unethical, it is. Moreover, if I think that God who judges us when we die, I am right (God exists and is the judge), and the atheist is wrong; however, the individual relativist also says that the atheist is correct the arguments about what is right and wrong are pointless, no matter how sure you are that they have done something wrong. Further, David Kyle Johnson in Philosphy and Pop Calcture explains individual relativism has unwelcome consequences if true. If individual relativism was true, being racist would be the morally acceptable attitude and “true for them.” But disagreements from

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