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Essay / The relativity of ethical questions - 1278
Nowadays, moral ethics is considered relative. In relation to culture, in relation to a person's needs, in relation to circumstances and in relation to what we assume to be right or wrong. Everyone has a different perspective on what is true; one person may believe that “x” is true while another may not. The same concept applies to ethics, one person might say that killing animals for food is correct and another might say that it is incorrect because we can survive on natural food. So, each person has a different opinion as to what is true about ethics, the opinion depends on what is right or wrong and what is ethical and what is not. Social relativism reduces ethics to sociology: what is right is whatever a particular society says is right. . Radical relativism reduces it to a question of taste: what is right is what the person believes and feels. And it's not just an academic challenge. If there is no truth in ethics, then parents also find themselves in a state of discontent trying to persuade their children that they should or should not act in a certain way because doing so or not not doing so corresponds to their desires. from other members of this society or from the parents themselves. However, if there is no reason to justify this caution, there can be no justifiable wrongdoing, just as there can be no convincing answer to the question of why young people should defer to wishes of others, including their own desires. parents, at the expense of theirs. Truth is so fundamental to the meaning of our lives that it can be argued that anyone who claims that there is no truth, that is, even no truths about the physical world, is deceptive. The fact that such individuals are alive to make such claims shows that they have depended much of their behavior on what they...... middle of paper ...... citizens and government as one, we can solve this problem. .We must teach our children that, if they want to be moral, they can never be absolutely sure that the decision they make is the right one, as in science, if they follow the process as rigorously and objectively as possible . , they reduce the risk that they will make a mistake. As Kant so clearly argued, it is the process rather than the product that ultimately defines an act and the individual who pursues it, as moral or otherwise. In ethics as in science, the value of any assertion is measured by the process to which it has been subjected. We must teach our children that in ethics, as in science, it is important to think, not just to feel and move; and the reason why thinking is important is that, if done directly, thoroughly and creatively, it will bring the thinker closer to the truth.!