Ethical Relativism

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. …

…tie his children up and leave them in the basement until they stopped crying? What would the courts say to that? If you stick to ethical relativism then the courts would have no say, but how could that be fair to the children in this case. Although there are good examples of ethical relativism, such as freedom of speech and religion, there would be to many opportunities for people to take advantage of the system.