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Examples Of Ethical Relativism. The same action may be morally right in one society but be morally wrong in another. Even more than in the past we can we see this across the map. The disadvantage of ethical relativism is that truth right and wrong and justice are all relative. They are determined by who we are where we live what century we were born in or what part of the world we are located.
The only moral standards against which a society s practices can be judged are its own. Now it is not. Even more than in the past we can we see this across the map. Certainly those people who live now in the year 2009 would not agree with the practices of slavery that were widely used in the 1800 s. The disadvantage of ethical relativism is that truth right and wrong and justice are all relative. Two hundred years ago in america slavery was the norm and morally acceptable.
For the ethical relativist there are no universal moral standards standards that can be universally applied to all peoples at all times.
Slavery is a good example of this. Just because a group of people thinks that something is right does not make it so. The same action may be morally right in one society but be morally wrong in another. Certainly those people who live now in the year 2009 would not agree with the practices of slavery that were widely used in the 1800 s. Now it is not. The argument for ethical relativism is based on the ethnographic fact that different cultures around the world subscribe to other moral values.