Ethical Relativism

Ethical Relativism Who is to judge what is right and what is wrong? In the South flying the Rebel flag is considered to be a perfectly normal thing to do. In other parts of the country it is considered to be offensive to African Americans. Some people in the South claim they are proud of their Southern heritage, and that the Rebel flag is the flag of the south not the flag of slavery. People …

…of moral and religious ideas within and between societies is invoked as evidence for relativism. With so many options before us, who is to say what is true or false, right or wrong? We are left with relativism. Ethical Relativism in one of the most frequently expressed moral ideals in the contemporary United States. Most often expressed in the name of tolerance, it is a noble attempt to avoid ethnocentric assumptions about one's own culture.