gailryder17 wrote:
puddingmouse wrote:
Blind adherence to tradition
Knee-jerk reactions to modernism - such as anti-femininsim, and increasing religious fundamentalism
Anti-science crap
People when they replace 'God' with 'Nature' and think 'natural' = 'right', I hate it when appeals to nature are used to make value judgements
People who think health = virtue
Although I'm not fat - anti-fat people sentiment
Neoliberal deification of entrepreneurs
Anti-arts philistinism
The human condition
Cultural relativism
I totally relate to everything bolded.
Can you explain cultural relativism. I looked it up and it said : Cultural relativism is the principle that an individual human's beliefs and activities should be understood in terms of his or her own culture. I'm going to need some clarification.
Here are some things that annoy me:
Homophobia
Ageism (although sometimes I am guilty of this - I wish I wasn't)
Status Quo, especially a very rigid one
People expecting me to be cardboard cutouts of them.
Cultural relativism is a position in moral philosophy where morality is relative to one's culture. This sounds fine until you actually think of what the implications are. If you follow moral relativism to its logical conclusion, then things like honour killings and sexual abuse of children are okay for the cultures where they are accepted as normal.
One reason I reject moral relativism so strongly is because I'm in favour of LGBT rights as an absolute, rather than making concessions for homophobic cultures.
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