Moral Relativism In The Film Wolf Of Wall Street

The question of what moral relativism is, in the kind of society that we live in today all comes down to what we as individuals ought to believe as morally right. As there are many individuals that live on the face of this planet, which means there will also be many varying answers as to what can be deemed just/right and what can be deemed wrong. By definition moral relativism is the view that moral judgments are true or false only relative to some particular standpoint (for instance, that of a culture or historical period) and that no standpoint is uniquely privileged over all others. In my opinion, I think that each and every individual have their own specific definition of what moral relativism is when it comes to them. So then are we fit as humans, in particular, humans with differing insights pertaining to our individuality justified by any means to determine what is moral and what is not? There are particular instances that occur
In this movie you see Jordan Belfort the main character make an unprecedented amount of capital in such a short period of time by using what he learned on Wall Street to defraud wealthy investors out of millions. He and his collaborators misrepresented the truth to every wealthy investor they talked to, only to greedily attain vast amounts of financial gains for themselves. Most people, including myself, saw this as morally wrong while in the mean time they didn’t seem to care, hence, the outcome for those who actually fell for their manipulative schemes proved to be more than catastrophic. Moral relativism is called upon big time here, where these people knew what they were doing was wrong and they chose to do it anyway because they were in reality only worried about their monetary gains and not at all concerned about the investors supposed gains except only to coerce the investor to fall into a well thought of