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Why do you think it is absurd? I'd think a moral relativist could support science, reason, and grade school grammar while also believing it's due to cultural fa

• vehemenz 3y ago
  > believing it's due to cultural factors that are not inherently true. Moral relativists are moral realists, meaning that they believe that moral truths are dependent, in part, on the culture in which the truths are being evaluated. So I don't think what you're talking about is moral relativism but rather, the fact that different cultures may have slightly different moral beliefs, which is obviously true. For actual objections to moral relativism, aside from the usual objections to moral realism that undercut all of these: https://iep.utm.edu/moral-re/#H4 https://iep.utm.edu/moral-re/#H4
  • hotdogscout 3y ago
    You're right, I assumed moral relativism meant something else. Thanks.