Let cultural relativism be characterized by the following set of statements:
For each of the following statements or sets of statements, ascertain whether
statement / set of statements | answer | |
1 | What’s right in the United States is not necessarily right in China. | |
2 | What’s right in the United States is also necessarily right in China. | |
3 | There is something right in the U.S. that is also right in China. | |
4 | Different cultures have different moral beliefs. | |
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Different cultures have different moral beliefs. If different cultures have different moral beliefs, then cultural relativism is true. |
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6 | Moral truth is relative to each individual: what’s right for you is not necessarily right for me, and vice versa. | |
7 | The customs of one culture cannot be compared, morally, with the customs of any other culture. | |
8 | The customs of contemporary America are morally better than those of North Korea. | |
9 | Our own culture is not morally perfect: our customs have some room for improvement. | |
10 | In each society, the way people figure out what’s right and wrong is by consulting the customs of that society. | |
11 | The customs of contemporary America are morally better than those of early nineteenth-century America. | |
12 | The customs of contemporary America are the same as those of early nineteenth-century America. | |
13 | It is virtuous to be tolerant and open-minded about other cultures’ ways of doing things. | |
14 | If you judge another culture to have immoral practices, that does not mean you have to forcefully intervene. |