Would It Still Be Right If Summary

Cultural relativism is the idea that something being good or bad is dependent on the specific culture involved. If something is socially approved then that certain thing will be considered good. Harry Gensler is against cultural relativism, he believes the main issue with cultural relativism is that whatever is socially approved is considered good. This would be a problem in situations where the majority of a population is racist, regardless if everyone believes it to be good racism will never be a good thing. Gensler also discusses how cultural relativism ignores all the subgroups people belong to. If cultural relativism were true then no one could be involved in more than one group seeing how each group normally has their own views on things and someone could be in two groups that contradict each other. …show more content…
Enoch supports this when discussing moral objectivity. In his subsection titled, “Would it still be right if...?” he talks about how regardless of everyone believing something is morally okay it can still be wrong which sounds a lot like one of Gensler’s objections to cultural relativism. Enoch says something is objective if the facts about it occur no matter your opinion on them. He says that if you think something is wrong or have a disagreement about something that you have already dedicated to morality’s objectivity. This supports Gensler’s position because in cultural relativism you cannot disagree with the norms of society and without disagreement you would never think using moral