What is ethical relativism? "...that there is no universal moral truth, that each culture has it's own set of rules that are valid for that culture, and we have no right to interfere, just as they have no right to interfere with our rules."(p. 89) The best example from the book is that of the Northwest Coast American Indians. They thought that they needed to retaliate after all deaths, no matter what the cause. The book describes how one tribe gathered a war party that killed seven people in their sleep after the chief's sister and daughter drowned.(p. 93)
As a rule I feel that the theory of ethical relativism is absurd. The example from the book shows an argument one could make again
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