Ethical Relativism

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. In which our moral beliefs tend to reflect the culture in which we grew up. If we grew up in Syria, we may believe that it's morally permissible to have more than one wife. If we grew up in India, we may believe that it's morally permissible for wives to be burned alive along with their dead husbands on a funeral pyre. (Which is an ancient traditon in which the dead body is burned on a pile of wood. Or whatever that particular tradition calls for) If we grew up in America, however, we are likely to believe that these practices are not morally permissible. Since people in different cultures have different moral beliefs, the conclusion that morality is relative to culture seems unavoidable.
Ethical tolerance although a good thing does have its’ faults. Such as cannibalism which is still practiced today. South Seas Islanders practice cannibalism. (Which is the consumation of humans for the purpose of satifsing hungre) Cannibalism is strictly prohibited in the U.S. If no one set of socially appr...