How to Deal with Moral Differences :: Papers Ethics Morality

How to Deal with Moral Differences The first behavior is to believe there are no virtuously right or wrong viewpoints. The righteous slew is just a cultural game and neither your opinions or mine matters.Therefore there is no right or wrong. This view is called moral nihilism. think to this root is moral skepticism, which holds that we cant know anymoral truths, and moral subjectivism, which holds that moral views aremerely inner states in a roughlyone and that they cant be compared to the innerstates of another person. However believing in the above solves no problems,if nobody is right and nobody is wrong.The second way is to believe that there is no universal truth, that each culturehas its own set of dominates that are valid and apply to that culture, they get intotinterfere with our rules and we dont interfere with theirs, this is called ethicalrelativism. This belief is viewed as an attitude of tolerance. This belief solvesconflicts in the idea that whate ver the majority deems to be the moral rule isthe rule to follow.The third belief is that deep down in spite of all the cultures differences we callall still agree on a certain moral basics, that people everywhere have basicallythe same human nature but that we just adapt it into our environment, thisidea is called Soft Universalism. Universalism because it perceives that thereare some universal moral rules soft because it is not as radical as harduniversalism. This belief can solve problems because its main goal is to seek reciprocal ground beneath the variety of opinions and mores.The fourth belief is called hard universalism, this is the absolute opposite ofmoral nihilism stating that there is only one universal moral code. This beliefsolves problems with hard evidence and reason.Problems with Ethical Relativism(1) No Criticism or Praise of Other Cultures, we need to criticize or praise othercultures ethical motive to maintain our own moral integrity.(2) Majority Rule, the i dea of the majority always being right is just not rational.(3) Professed or Actual Morality? this is the idea that a certain kind of behavior isnormal, but what is normal? for example when a company was asked aboutinfidelity the majority was against it but when the same group was asked if theyhad committed it, the majority had.(4) What is a Majority? In the instance of euthanasia if a law is passed tomorrow