Within this world that we live on, there is an enormous amount of people. Each of these people belongs to different cultures and societies. Every society has traits and customs that make it unique. These societies follow different moral codes. This means that they will may have different answers to the moral questions asked by our own society. What I am trying to say is that every society has a different way of analyzing and …
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…not the case, some societies just have peculiar practices, in comparison to our own society. For example, the Callatians eat the flesh of their dead fathers. To our western society, this act is considered to be some sort of appalling, demented act. To the Callatians, this is a traditional ritual and to ignore it would be disrespectful and the act of a degenerate (Pojman,1996). This discrepancy is just another example of Cultural Relativism. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**