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Moral Relativism: Is Ethics Just Culture?
If morality depends on culture, can anything be universally wrong?
Different cultures hold radically different moral codes. Does that mean all of them are equally valid — or equally wrong?
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Moral relativism holds that ethical truths are not universal but are instead determined by cultural, social, or individual frameworks. What counts as 'right' depends on context. Across history, practices from human sacrifice to arranged marriages have been considered morally obligatory within their cultures — and abhorrent from outside.
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