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Cultural Relativism: Moral Beliefs Cultural relativism is the viewpoint and belief that there are no absolute moral truths, only truths relative to the culture in which you belong to. What one society would consider morally right, another society might consider to be morally wrong, therefore, what is morally right and what is morally wrong are only relative to a particular, individual society. Cultural relativism implies that what is "good" is what is "socially approved" to …

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…My ideas and opinions eventually grew quiet, and later became silent. "Good" and "bad" are only names. The only thing that can be right is what I value, and the only things that can be wrong are what I hold against that. Culture relativism is inevitable and hard to fight. It is pasted and thrown all over society. No single person can hide from it, or even deny that it has not affected their lives.