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Cultural Relativism
Cultural Relativism argues that moral facts are determined by cultures and no objective standard can be used to pass judgment upon other cultures. Cultural relativism teaches us to overlook the faults of other cultures, should cultures beliefs be neglected if there is cruelty involved? Over looking the harm one culture is doing to its citizens would be immoral to many different cultures. Even today in a world that presents us with the ideology to be accepting of cultures, there is always an underlying stigma between two cultures. To be accepting of another culture is difficult, this maybe do to their different beliefs or actions, but one culture is constantly judging another. Cultural relativism permits discrepancies from a culture and helps that culture to escape constant critiquing from another. Cultural relativisms gesture of acceptance is right but it is just that a gesture because there is a difference between morals and savagery. To ignore savage crimes......

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