Ethics and Values / Unit 2 Ethics 050 short lesson, about 20 seconds
No Criticizing Your Own Society
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The idea
If cultural relativism is true, a society's code is the final standard for its members; challenging the local code means being wrong by definition.
In practice
A citizen argues her country's inheritance rules cheat daughters. Relativism scores her claim against those very rules — she loses before she speaks.
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