RUTH BENEDICT’S DEFENSE ON ETHICAL RELATIVISM

MORALITY
gives one a “false sense of ought to be
the inevitable” identifying &
enclosing the viewed on the basis of common
because or
or
“morally conventionally agreement
acceptable”
makes one believe that
in a box
“it is what it is”, and one
cannot do anything about it
Benedict argues that

the stark difference in the it is impossible for any

what one considers
categorization between the and because civilization to encapsulate and therefore and a
constant minority of deviants
“moral” is subjective to
normal and the abnormal of this the human behavior in its implies that in every culture
culture
in various cultures entirety
because implies that

A society’s societies slowly diverge what is acceptable in most will readily accept
perception one’s culture as good whatever is given to them
on an from the start
abnormality further reinforcing that

carry & integrate discard

can be
collectively collectively
agreed upon unwanted
traits traits MORALITY
viewed of the foundation
high regard of another becomes the becomes the
culture
like that of like the Normal Abnormal differs in a convenient
every term for
culture socially-approved
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