Ethical Relativism: What's Right For My Culture

Ethical relativism is a theory that holds that morality is relative to the rules of one's culture. That is, when an action is right or wrong and depends on the moral rules of the society in which it is experienced. This action may be right in one society but be wrong in another. What’s right for you may not be what’s right for me. For example, I buy my stuff if I do not have the money I do not buy it at all. On the other hand, someone wants to buy something and they do not have enough money, so they steal it. My right was walking away and buying it later the other person wrong is stealing because in they eyes it was the right thing to do. What’s right for my culture won’t necessarily be what’s right for your culture. For example, I go to