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Ethical Relativism, The Principle Of Tolerance, And Moral Relativism

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I will argue about Pojman’s outlook or moral relativism and how he sees it as a confusing, unclear moral theory. I will discuss the strongest arguments about moral relativism, the principle of tolerance, Pojman’s argument about subjectivism and how it contradicts the idea of morality, and my outlooks on why I do agree with Pojman. First off, John Ladd mentions, that “Ethical relativism is the doctrine that the moral rightness and wrongness of actions vary from society to society and that there are no absolute universal moral standards binding on all men at all the time” (pg. 14). Throughout our society there are many different practices done throughout the universe. I will begin this paper by explaining what Eskimos find to be morally correct. For example, Eskimos live a life that has different rituals then some other societies. The Eskimos deal with their elder’s death differently then we do here in the United States. When dealing with the elderly they allow them to die, by not feeding them and letting their elders starve. When we have elders we tend to take care of them, feed them, bathe them and so on. We might tend to look at the Eskimos as being morally wrong by allowing their elders to starve, but to them this isn’t wrong. On the other hand, in the United States it is wrong to steal from anyone, or anything. If you get caught stealing you are faced with punishments, such as probation, and sometimes even jail. In ancient Greece the Spartans and the Dobu of New

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