Culture Practice

Why do different cultures have different moral codes? Different societies have different moral codes. The moral code of society determines what is right within that society; that is, if the moral code of a society says that a certain action is right, then that action is right, at least within that society. There is no objective standard that can used to judge one society's code better than another's. The moral code of our own society has no special status; it is merely one among many. There is no universal truth in ethnics; however, no moral truths that hold for all peoples at all times. Its mere arrogance for us try to judge the conduct of other peoples. We should adopt an attitude of tolerance toward the practices of other cultures. But there are many cultural differences, the theory is that its in a form of a argument. Certain culture thought it was okay to eat the dead unlike others. All cultures have different culture moral codes, right and wrong are only a matter of opinion, and opinions vary from culture to culture. For example, some societies believe that the earth is flat, unlike most cultures. The fundamental mistake in the cultural differences argument is that it attempts to derive a substantive conclusion about a subject from the mere fact that people disagree about it. Even if cultural differences argument is invalid, cultural relativism might still be true. If thought that we could no longer say that the customs of other societies are morally inferior to our own. We have to stop .condemning other societies merely because they are "different." However, we would also be stopped from criticizing other, less benign practices. The original impetus for cultural relativism comes from the observation that cultures differ dramatically in their views of right and wrong. Consider a culture in which people believe it is wrong to eat cows. The point is that many factors work together to produce the customs of a society. All cultures have some values in common. There is a general theoretical point here, namely, that they are some moral values that all societies must have in common, because those are rules are necessary for society to exist. The neutral standard of right and wrong is among us, people feel that rightly enough that there should be some tolerance in all cultures. Cultural relativism warns us that the danger of assuming that all our preferences are based on some absolute rational standard. Many, but not all, of our practices are merely peculiar to our society, and its easy to lose sight of that fact, this means, the theory has a purpose. We can understand the appeal of cultural relativism, even though the theory has shortcomings. Keeping this thought firmly in view is important if we want to avoid arrogance and have open minds. These are points that we have to remember to not be taken lightly. But we can accept these points without going on to accept the whole theory.