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Ethical Relativism Discussion

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Help me study for my Philosophy class. I’m stuck and don’t understand.

This week we are discussing ethical relativism. What are the pros and cons of the belief that ethics ought to be relative, i.e. normative ethical/cultural relativism? In other words, it might be obvious that certain cultures do indeed have different ethical beliefs, but what do we make of the claim that this should/ought to be the case?