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The Reformer's Dilemma

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The reformer's dilemma: if each culture's code defines right, then moral reformers—who challenge their own culture's code—are automatically wrong. That verdict indicts the theory.

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On relativist terms, the abolitionist inside a slaveholding society errs, and moral progress is a contradiction: the code cannot improve by its own standard.

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