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Writer 1

Explain how ethics is different from the social sciences: the anthropologist Ruth Benedict developed the theory of cultural relativism.  But the standards of the social sciences are different from those of ethics.  Explain how and why this is the case?

Social science differs from ethics in that social science is the study of human society and the relationships within a society. Ethic is what governs a person’s behavior. To explain further ethics is your moral compass, letting you distinguish between right and wrong or good and bad. Studying this behavior (with an outside perspective) is the social science. Although I don’t agree with Ruth Benedict and her theory of cultural relativism I understand that our country has done a considerable amount of immoral actions that had to be explained by anthropologists. Noting one example not from our reading would be the removal and assimilation of the Native Americans by this country. “What would follow if a society’s actual moral standard were determined by that society’s beliefs and practices?” (Burnor, 60) To believe that relativism is true is holding true that the trickery and genocide done by the government to the Native American is acceptable, because as long as something is widely accepted by a group or culture, it is relativism or acceptable. In my opinion there is something morally wrong with relativism.

Work Cited

Burnor, Richard, and Yvonne Raley. Ethical Choices: an introduction to moral philosophy with cases. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Print.

Writer 2

1. Relativism says that different cultures have different values.  Are there any cultural norms that would be so wrong that relativism would be overruled?  Which ones, and why?

Cultural Relativism in relation to tolerance suggests that we should respect the moral beliefs and practices of other persons when sometimes conflicting with our own moral beliefs or practice, and understanding that no individual societies morals or beliefs are above another’s. I believe that in certain instances that understanding another’s morals or beliefs can help us from acting inappropriately when someone doesn’t stand for what we stand for morally.

    Several instances where certain cultural relativism practices have been inexplicably inappropriate and wrong that society has discontinued the acceptance of such actions In the United States would be racism/segregation, and adolescent employment in factories or near harmful toxins. These two examples are pivotal to the way that society has transcended ignorance in terms of improper treatment and unethical employment standards. Relativism lets us understand the importance of being open minded to several other cultural practices, but also helps influence our own practices in society sometimes for the embitterment of a nation, but in some cases not so much. Some practices are better abandoned and even though they are sometimes extreme, they can also help bring people together who inspire to make things better.