Rachels 'The Challenge Of Cultural Relativism'

Cultural relativism is simply explained as such that a culture of some sort has their own set of moral codes and beliefs where they all agree that whatever is the rules they must follow because they believe it is morally correct and ethical. For example, in the Philippines, president Rodrigo Duterte believes in the extrajudicial killings of drug users and drug dealers because it is morally right to cleanse their society from it. People in that culture believes that it is correct because they all agree that it is the right thing to do since the culture and their society collectively believes in it. If someone else outside of their culture does not believe in it and thinks that it is morally wrong and unethical to kill people over drugs, those individuals are considered wrong.
In this sense, the American culture is wrong because they do not understand the Philippines’ culture and cannot criticize theirs but should rather criticize their own culture of what is considered ethical and not. Even if this is the case, in Rachels’ “The Challenge of Cultural Relativism,” he brings up one of his objections that cultures cannot simply criticize another. It is quite straightforward because one culture cannot understand another’s if they are not part of that culture in the first place. The upbringings and values are completely different between polar cultures. There is no wrong or right way of what a culture should be either it seems “ethical” or not to the other because it goes down to the how the cultures are different from another. If one cannot understand the culture of another, then they do not have the right to judge or criticize them since they are not part of them in the first